Abstract Cognitive linguistics (CL) has, in recent years, seen an increase in appeals to include multiple modalities in language analyses. While individual studies have incorporated gesture, gaze, facial expression, and prosody, among other modalities, CL has yet to completely embrace the systematic analysis of face-to-face interaction. Here, I present an investigation of five aspect-marking periphrastic constructions in North American English. Using naturalistic interactional data (n=250) from the Red Hen archive, this study establishes a multimodal profile for auxiliary constructions headed by one of five highly aspectualized verbs: continue, keep, start, stop, and quit, as in The jackpot continued to grow and He quit smoking. Results show that gesture timing, the structure of the gesture stroke, and gesture movement type, are variables that iconically and differentially represent distinctive aspectual conceptualizations. This study enhances our understanding of aspectual representation in co-speech gesture and informs the ongoing debate within CL and construction grammar circles of what constitutes conventionalization, or what constitutes a construction (mono- or multimodal).

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方面的多模式标记：北美英语中的五种颅周辅助结构的情况

摘要近年来，认知语言学（CL）越来越多地要求在语言分析中包含多种模式。尽管个别研究已将手势，凝视，面部表情和韵律等方式结合在一起，但CL尚未完全包含对面对面互动的系统分析。在这里，我对北美英语中五个标记方面的词组进行了调查。使用Red Hen档案库中的自然互动数据（n = 250），本研究建立了以五个高度方面化的动词之一为首的辅助结构的多峰模式：继续，保持，开始，停止和退出，如在头奖中继续成长，他戒烟。结果表明，手势计时，手势笔触的结构以及手势移动类型，是标志性和差异性代表独特方面概念的变量。这项研究增强了我们对共语音手势中的方面表示的理解，并为CL和构造语法界内正在进行的关于什么是惯例化或什么是构造（单峰或多峰）的辩论提供了信息。