Rosemary Webb AbstractThis thesis describes how co-speech gestures are used by Hul’q’umi’num’ storytellers. Hul’q’umi’num’ is the dialect of Halkomelem Salish spoken on Vancouver Island. All language users gesture, though the form and function of gestures can vary across languages and dialects. This work comprises the first description of iconic gestures in a Salish language, focusing…

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