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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 6.
Published in final edited form as: Sign Lang Linguist. 2014;17(2):181–212. doi: 10.1075/sll.17.2.02app

Table 5.

The mean number of manual and nonmanual prosodic features David produced on gestures occurring in complex utterances as a function of position (End of Utterance; End of Proposition; Non-End). Standard errors are in parentheses; N’s are the gestures on which each prosodic score is based.

Type of prosodic
Feature		 Non-End End of
Proposition		 End of Utterance
Manual
(repetitions, emphatics, holds)		 0.38 (.04)
n=208		 0.33 (.03)
n=281		 0.52 (.05)
n=163
Nonmanual
(head tilts, nods)		 0.12 (.02)
n=208		 0.07 (.02)
n=281		 0.25 (.04)
n=163