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dc.contributor.authorMalaia, Evie
dc.contributor.authorWilbur, Ronnie B.
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-17T02:12:14Z
dc.date.available2014-09-17T02:12:14Z
dc.date.issued2010-11-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/24688
dc.descriptionProceedings of the 2010 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs: The Identification and Representation of Verb Featuresen_US
dc.description.abstract**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.
dc.description.sponsorshipSupported by National Institutes of Health grant DC005241 and NSF BCS-0345314 grant to Ronnie Wilbur.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectAmerican Sign Languageen_US
dc.subjectCroatian Sign Languageen_US
dc.subjectHrvatski Znakovni Jezik (HZJ)en_US
dc.subjectSign languages -- sign positionen_US
dc.subjectSign languages -- kinematic parametersen_US
dc.subjectPredicatesen_US
dc.titleRepresentation of verbal event structure in sign languagesen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlingtonen_US
dc.identifier.externalLinkhttp://linguistica.sns.it/Workshop_verb/papers/Malaia_verb2010_submission_7.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.externalLinkDescriptionThe original publication is available at the conference websiteen_US


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