Why do we move our heads when we interact? 🤔
My new article (together with a great collegue and gesture expert Silva Ladewig) in Open Linguistics explores the functions of head nods and head shakes in spoken German and German Sign Language.
www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...
While recurrent manual gestures have been extensively studied, nonmanual actions such as head movements remain less explored, especially in naturalistic interaction. This study investigates whether he...