Fey Parrill

Education

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Joint Ph.D. in Psychology and Linguistics, 2006

University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley, CA
BA in Linguistics (Honors), 2000

Teaching at Case Western Reserve University

Cognitive Science 101: Intro to Cognitive Science.
Cognitive Science 302: SAGES Departmental Seminar (Method & Theory in Cognitive Science)
Cognitive Science 327: Gesture in Communication and Cognition.
SAGES First Seminar. FSNA 112: Talking brains: The neuroscience of language.
SAGES University Seminar. USNA 230: ATTENTION! Understanding the human attention system.

Publications

In press, to appear, submitted

• Parrill, F. (in press). The hands are part of the package: Gesture, common ground, and information packaging. In J. Newman & S. Rice (Eds.), Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research. Stanford: CSLI. PDF
• Parrill, F. (in review). Interactions between discourse status and viewpoint in co-speech gesture.
• Parrill, F. (in review). Linking grammar and gesture: Argument structure constructions and gestural viewpoint.

Published

• Parrill, F. (2008). Form, meaning and convention: An experimental examination of metaphoric gestures. In A. Cienki & C. Müller (Eds.), Metaphor and Gesture (pp. 195-217). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. PDF
• Parrill, F. (2008). Subjects in the hands of speakers: An experimental study of syntactic subject and speech-gesture integration. Cognitive Linguistics 19(2), 283-299.
• Parrill, F. (2007). Metagesture: An analysis of theoretical discourse about multimodal language. In S. Duncan, J. Cassell, & E. Levy (Eds.), Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language (pp. 83-89). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. PDF
• Parrill, F. & Kimbara, I. (2006). Seeing and hearing double: The influence of mimicry in speech and gesture on event representation. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 30 (4), 157-166. PDF
• Rohlfing, K, Loehr, D., Duncan, S., Brown, A., Franklin, A., Kimbara, I., Milde, J., Parrill, F., Rose, T., Schmidt, T., Sloetjes, T., & Thies, A. (2006) Comparison of multimodal annotation tools. Gesprächsforschung 7, 99-123. PDF
• Parrill, F. (2005). The visible and the vocal: speech and gesture on a continuum of communicative action. Review of Adam Kendon's Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance. Sign Language Studies 6, 197-219. PDF
• Parrill, F. & Sweetser, E. (2004). What we mean by meaning: Conceptual integration in gesture analysis and transcription. Gesture 4, 197-219. PDF

Conference Presentations

• Parrill, F. (invited for 2008). Using the hands to read the mind: Co-speech gesture as evidence for the embodied nature of human cognition. Invited theme session presentation. Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition. Brighton, UK.
• Quinto-Pozos, D., & Parrill, F. (2008). Enactment as a communicative strategy: A comparison between English co-speech gesture and American Sign Language. Workshop: Comparison of Signed and Spoken Languages. Bamberg, Germany.
• Parrill, F. (2007). Using the hands to see inside the head. Invited Cognitive Science and Linguistics Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX, USA.
• Parrill, F. (2007). Perspective-taking in gesture: The role of first hand and second hand knowledge in the production of character viewpoint gestures. Theme session on viewpoint and perspective, International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Krakow, Poland.
• Parrill, F. (2006). Attention shapes gesture production. Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language. San Diego, CA, USA.
• Parrill, F. (2006). Manipulating the speech-gesture system: Changing speech changes the speaker's gestures. 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Albuquerque, NM, USA.
• Parrill, F. (2005). Common ground is in the hands of the speaker: a multimodal investigation of information packaging. Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Lyon, France.
  
• Parrill, F. & Kimbara, I. (2005). Mimicry in collaborative interaction: the impact of entrainment in speech and gesture on perception and event representation. Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Lyon, France.
  
• Parrill, F. (2005). Topics in the Hands of Speakers: Speech, Gesture, and Discourse Structure. 41st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago, IL, USA.
  
• Parrill, F. (2004). The Hands are Part of the Package: Gesture, Common Ground, and Information Packaging. Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  
• Kimbara, I. & Parrill, F. (2004). A reflection on mirroring in speech and gesture: Observer's perception of social resonance. 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago, IL, USA.
• Parrill, F. (2004). Communicative Dynamism in Speech and Gesture. Society for Text and Discourse. Chicago, IL, USA.
• Parrill, F. (2003). Intuitions and violations of good form in metaphoric conduit gestures. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Logroño, Spain.
• Parrill, F. (2003). Gesture and Syntactic Accommodation. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Logroño, Spain.
  
• Parrill, F. & Sweetser, E. (2002). Representing Meaning: Morphemic- level analysis in gesture transcription. Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Austin, TX, USA.
• Parrill, F. (2001). Linguistic Aspect and Gestural Cues to Backstage Cognition. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Professional Activities

• Executive Board, International Society for Gesture Studies, 2007-present.
• Ad hoc reviewer: Cognitive Linguistics.
• Panel Organizer: Collaboration, common ground and concealment: a multimodal investigation of interactive language use. Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Lyon, France, 2005.
• Co-organizer, 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 15-17 April, 2004. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
• Co-organizer, Conference in Honor of David McNeill, 8 June, 2003. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
• Panel Organizer: Conceptual integration in gesture analysis. Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Austin, TX, USA, 2002.

Professional Affiliations

• Cognitive Science Society
• International Cognitive Linguistics Association
• International Society for Gesture Studies
• Linguistic Society of America
• International Pragmatics Association

Research Interests

Co-speech gesture, pragmatics & discourse analysis, language & thought, embodied cognition, construction grammar.