Information Transfer Capacity of Articulators in American Sign Language
| Autor: | Ronnie B. Wilbur, Evie Malaia, Joshua D. Borneman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Linguistics and Language
Information transfer Time Factors Sociology and Political Science American Sign Language Property (programming) Head (linguistics) Computer science Redundancy (linguistics) Movement Video Recording Sign language 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Motion (physics) Functional Laterality Speech and Hearing Sign Language Image Processing Computer-Assisted Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 060201 languages & linguistics Communication business.industry 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Hand language.human_language Head Movements 0602 languages and literature language Visual Perception business Comprehension Algorithms Sign (mathematics) |
| Zdroj: | Language and speech. 61(1) |
| ISSN: | 0023-8309 |
| Popis: | The ability to convey information is a fundamental property of communicative signals. For sign languages, which are overtly produced with multiple, completely visible articulators, the question arises as to how the various channels co-ordinate and interact with each other. We analyze motion capture data of American Sign Language (ASL) narratives, and show that the capacity of information throughput, mathematically defined, is highest on the dominant hand (DH). We further demonstrate that information transfer capacity is also significant for the non-dominant hand (NDH), and the head channel too, as compared to control channels (ankles). We discuss both redundancy and independence in articulator motion in sign language, and argue that the NDH and the head articulators contribute to the overall information transfer capacity, indicating that they are neither completely redundant to, nor completely independent of, the DH. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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