Coarticulation of handshape in Sign Language of the Netherlands: a corpus study
| Autor: | Onno Crasborn, Anne de Meijer, Gerrit Jan Kootstra, E.A. Ormel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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handshape
Cross-language activation and cognitive effects in bimodal bilinguals [Handy connections between signing and speaking] Linguistics and Language Speech recognition Thumb Sign language Lexicon 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics finger selection medicine SignSpeak Handshape 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences coarticulation Coarticulation 060201 languages & linguistics Sign Language Linguistics Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 the linguistic impact of having two symmetrical articulators on sign language [On the other hand] 05 social sciences the linguistic impact of having two symmetrical articulators in sign language [On the other hand] 06 humanities and the arts thumb Linguistics Language & Communication Computer Science Applications Feature (linguistics) body regions medicine.anatomical_structure 0602 languages and literature Articulation (phonetics) Psychology Sign language coarticulation hand movements Sign (mathematics) |
| Zdroj: | Laboratory Phonology, 8, 1 Laboratory Phonology, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2017) Laboratory Phonology, 8 Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology; Vol 8, No 1 (2017); 10 |
| ISSN: | 1868-6346 1868-6354 |
| Popis: | This article investigates the articulation of the thumb in flat handshapes (B handshapes) in Sign Language of the Netherlands. On the basis of phonological models of handshape, the hypothesis was generated that the thumb state is variable and will undergo coarticulatory influences of neighboring signs. This hypothesis was tested by investigating thumb articulation in signs with B handshapes that occur frequently in the Corpus NGT. Manual transcriptions were made of the thumb state in two dimensions and of the spreading of the fingers in a total of 728 tokens of 14 sign types, and likewise for the signs on the left and right of these targets, as produced by 61 signers. Linear mixed-effects regression (LME4) analyses showed a significant prediction of the thumb state in the target sign based on the thumb state in the preceding as well as following neighboring sign. Moreover, the degree of spreading of the other fingers in the target sign also influenced the position of the thumb. We conclude that there is evidence for phonological models of handshapes in sign languages that argue that not all fingers are relevant in all signs. Phonological feature specifications can single out specific fingers as the articulators, leaving other fingers unspecified. We thus argue that the standard term ‘handshape’ is in fact a misnomer, as it is typically not the shape of the whole hand that is specified in the lexicon. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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