Associate Member
Camila Antonio Barros is currently working on a PhD project that explores the coordination between gesture and speech in Spanish and Portuguese, focusing on how gestures align with phonological, semantic, and pragmatic domains. In the initial phase, a corpus of recipe descriptions from Spanish (Bogotá, Madrid) and Portuguese (Lisbon, São Paulo) speakers was annotated to examine how prosodic domains are associated with phonological anchors, semantic meanings, and pragmatic functions. Preliminary findings suggest that gestures are linked to speech through complex, context-dependent associations, often diverging from McNeillian synchronicity rules. The next phase will use experimental paradigms to further explore the differences between synchronicity and alignment.
About
Free University of Berlin
c.antonio.barros@fu-berlin.de
Selected Publications
Barros, C. A., Reich, U., Dufter, A. Revisiting Rhythm in Romance Languages. In press. In Lars Meyer & Antje Strauss (eds.), Rhythms of Speech and Language: Culture, Cognition, and the Brain. Cambridge University Press.
Barros, C. A., Ciprián-Sánchez, J. F., & Santos, S. M. (2024). A Tool for Determining Distances and Overlaps between Multimodal Annotations. In N. Calzolari, M.-Y. Kan, V. Hoste, A. Lenci, S. Sakti, & N. Xue (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) (pp. 1705–1714). ELRA and ICCL.
Barros, C. A. & Mello, H. (2023). The C-ORAL-BRASIL proposal for the treatment of multimodal corpora data: the BGEST corpus pilot project. In: Ramírez, A. G.; Mejía, J. M.; Martin, P. V. Digital Humanities, Corpus and Language Technology / Humanidades Digitales, Corpus y Tecnología del Lenguaje. University of Groningen Press. DOI: 10.21827/64db66b6f1039
Barros, C. A. & Mello, H. (2023). Metodologia de alinhamento som/gesto: o que nos revela a fala espontânea. In: da Hora, D. Helmer, A. Interseções Linguísticas: Estudos diversos. São Paulo: Líquido Editorial. p. 54-70.