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New research:
Upcoming presentation at the ALT-2026: 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology:

together with Sonja Gipper, Alice Mitchell and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich "The Typology of Multimodal Feedback"

Invited keynote at the DGfS AG 2 "Tracing patterns across modalities":

Anastasia Bauer (University of Cologne) "Tracing heads: Kinematic and linguistic patterns of non-manual signals in spoken and signed interaction", 25.02.2026

A fundamental shift in the language and communication-related sciences:

Bauer, Anastasia, Patrick C. Trettenbrein, Federica Amici, Aleksandra Ćwiek,  Lisa-Marie Krause, Anna Kuder, Silva Ladewig, Marc Schulder, Petra Schumacher … Susanne Fuchs, Martin Schulte-Rüther. In print. Data Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 10.1177/25152459261442338

Read more: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459261442338#tab-contributors
New Project:

Part of Visual Communication: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives. DFG Priority Programme 2392, Phase II
New paper in Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics:

Bauer, Anastasia, Sonja Gipper, Tobias-Alexander Herrmann, and Jana Hosemann. 2026. “Rethinking Linguistic Feedback: A Modality-Agnostic and Holistic Approach to Multimodal Addressee Signals in Spoken and Signed Dyadic Interaction.” Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 11 (1): 18539. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.18539.
Presentation at the Multimodal Language Workshop in Florence, Italy:

together with Silva Ladewig "“Recurrent Head Movements in DGS and Spoken German. Communicative Functions of Head Nods and Head Shakes in Dyadic Interaction"

Gipper, Sonja, Bauer, Anastasia, Mitchell Alice, & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2025.

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Gipper, Sonja, Bauer, Anastasia, Mitchell Alice, & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2025. Cross-linguistic variation in multimodal feedback in conversation. March 21, Presentation at the 24. Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung. Responsives Verhalten: Praktiken, Handlungen und Affordanzen, Mannheim.