Irene Bolumar Martínez University of Chicago / University of Murcia

Irene Bolumar is a Fulbright graduate student at the Goldin-Meadow Lab (University of Chicago), visiting from Spain. She is working on extending the knowledge on how polysemy works by examining speakers utterances and spontaneous gestures. To do so, her project focuses on perception verbs while combining methods from corpus linguistics and multimodal research using the NewsScape audio-visual database.