Document Type
Presentation
Source Publication Title
Proceedings of the 2010 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs: The Identification and Representation of Verb Features
Abstract
Sign languages recruit physical properties of visual motion to convey linguistic information. The present experiment investigated the effect of sign position and grammatical aspect on kinematic parameters of predicates in American Sign Language (ASL) and Croatian Sign Language (Hrvatski Znakovni Jezik, HZJ) using motion capture data. Kinematic features of signs recorded on the dominant hand were affected by both grammatical aspect of the predicate, and its position within the sentence. The study demonstrates independent, but interactive effects of grammar and prosody on kinematic parameters of signs, and provides cross-linguistic confirmation that physical properties of articulator motion are recruited in sign languages to express linguistic features.
Disciplines
Curriculum and Instruction | Education
Publication Date
11-5-2010
Language
English
License
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Recommended Citation
Malaia, Evie and Wilbur, Ronnie B., "Representation of verbal event structure in sign languages" (2010). Curriculum and Instruction Faculty Publications. 29.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/curriculuminstruction_facpubs/29