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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"

Head shakes in spoken and signed interaction using CV

Project description

Head shakes in spoken and signed interaction using CV

In this project, we analyze phonetic properties of headshake expressing negation in DGS, RSL, PJM and spoken German, Russian and Polish using OpenFace. This study is a part of a larger project on headshakes led by Vadim Kimmelman