Dear all, Welcome to next week’s IMS seminar, where Gilbert Ambrazaitis will give a presentation on Audiovisual prominence perception. The seminar will be a project presentation and not a text discussion, so reading-preparation is not necessary, but if anyone do wish to read up on multimodal prosodic prominence before the seminar, Gilbert has provided two brief texts: one article (5 pages) and one longer project abstract. Abstract: Prosodic prominence (= highlighting syllables or words in spoken language) is signaled through a combination of acoustic properties. This is well established. Likewise, there is plenty of evidence suggesting that prominent words are regularly accompanied by, and temporally aligned with, rapid movements by various part of the body (e.g., hands, the head, the eyebrows). Such gestures are often assumed to be part of the multimodal make-up of prominence production. However, the question whether and how such visible cues might contribute to prominence perception has not been addressed sufficiently in previous research yet. In this talk I will review some existing evidence and present and discuss own preliminary results from audiovisual and audio-only prominence ratings of clips from Swedish television news readings, collected from 85 adult Swedish participants using a web-based interface The seminar is, as always, on Wednesday, March 24, at 10.15 – 12.00 (CET) on zoom: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/940933326 Best wishes, Signe – on behalf of IMS IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims Signe Kjaer Jensen PhD student in Comparative Literature Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se>