dc.contributor.author | Malaia, Evie | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilbur, Ronnie B. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-17T02:12:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-17T02:12:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-11-05 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10106/24688 | |
dc.description | Proceedings of the 2010 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs: The Identification and Representation of Verb Features | en_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.sponsorship | Supported by National Institutes of
Health grant DC005241 and NSF BCS-0345314 grant to Ronnie Wilbur. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | American Sign Language | en_US |
dc.subject | Croatian Sign Language | en_US |
dc.subject | Hrvatski Znakovni Jezik (HZJ) | en_US |
dc.subject | Sign languages -- sign position | en_US |
dc.subject | Sign languages -- kinematic parameters | en_US |
dc.subject | Predicates | en_US |
dc.title | Representation of verbal event structure in sign languages | en_US |
dc.type | Presentation | en_US |
dc.publisher.department | Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington | en_US |
dc.identifier.externalLink | http://linguistica.sns.it/Workshop_verb/papers/Malaia_verb2010_submission_7.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.externalLinkDescription | The original publication is available at the conference website | en_US |