Representation of verbal event structure in sign languages
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**Please note that the full text is embargoed** 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.
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