Chatino Pointing Gesture Research Paper on Distance Marking

A research paper archived as a PDF, authored by Kathryn Mesh in 2021. The publication investigates how the height of pointing gestures marks target distance among speakers of the San Juan Quiahije Chatino language. The paper was published in the journal Lingua, volume 259.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between gesture and spatial language based on the described research.
• Studying cross-cultural or cross-linguistic patterns in non-verbal communication based on the Chatino case study.
• Training or evaluating models for multimodal language analysis based on the theoretical framework.

Strengths

• Archived PDF of a peer-reviewed publication from the journal Lingua.
• Research focuses on a specific linguistic community, the San Juan Quiahije Chatino.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Archived research publication.

Time Range

2021

Freshness

Last updated 2024-03-18 10:46:22; freshness should be verified.

Geography

San Juan Quiahije Chatino language community.