Bc-Gullberg

The data in this corpus consist of placement event descriptions in speech and gesture in three groups of native speakers (Dutch, French, German) and two groups of second language speakers (Dutch1 and German1). The data have been collected using a dyadic referential communication task in the form of a Director-Matcher game (Describer-Drawer). The stimuli consisted of 32 placement events distributed over 8 short digitised videoclips. Each clip showed a female actor cleaning up a room, picking up objects from a pile on the floor, and putting them away in different locations. Each clip showed 4 objects being put away. The Describers watched one clip at a time, and when the screen went blank,...