| Handedness | One-Handed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Position | Central space at mouth level. | ||
| sound | Kissing sound | ||
| Timing | Usually no longer than 1 second. | ||
| Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Phase 3 | |
| Handshape |
All fingers are extended, touching at their tips. |
All fingers are extended, touching at their tips. |
All fingers are extended, and their tips are brought away from each other. |
| Movement |
Bringing fingers together. |
Kissing the tips of the fingers. |
Releasing the fingers away from mouth. |
| Orientation |
Fingers oriented upwards. Palm is lateral. |
Fingers oriented towards the speaker’s mouth. Palm is vertical. |
Fingers oriented upwards. Palm is lateral. |
| Semantic property | Something or someone is perfect or excellent. | ||
| Research Question | How can multimodal phenomena be modelled in Construction Grammar? |
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| Findings | Chef’s Kiss exemplifies a gesture that functions as a construction in its own right, as it constitutes a form-meaning pairing. It can occupy specific slots within argument structure constructions, resulting in a multimodal construct where the gesture assumes a syntactic role. |
| Date Created | 2026-07-07 |
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| Annotator | Yassine Iabdounane |