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The Interaction Of Sign Language And Gesture In Theatre Performance ...
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Gradual Recruitment Of Body Articulations For Discourse Structuring: Case Study In A Young Sign Language ...
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The Interaction Of Sign Language And Gesture In Theatre Performance ...
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Gradual Recruitment Of Body Articulations For Discourse Structuring: Case Study In A Young Sign Language ...
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Taking Meaning In Hand: Iconic Motivations In Two-Handed Signs ...
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Traditionally in sign language research, the issue of whether a lexical sign is articulated with one hand or two has been treated as a strictly phonological matter. We argue that accounting for two-handed signs also requires considering meaning as a motivating factor. We report results from a Swadesh list comparison, an analysis of semantic patterns among two-handed signs, and a picture-naming task. Comparing four unrelated languages, we demonstrate that the two hands are recruited to encode various relationship types in sign language lexicons. We develop the general principle that inherently "plural" concepts are straightforwardly mapped onto our paired human hands, resulting in systematic use of the two hands across sign languages. In our analysis, "plurality" subsumes four primary relationship types – interaction, location, dimension, and composition – and we predict that signs with meanings that encompass these relationships – such as 'meet', 'empty', 'large', or 'machine' – will preferentially be ...
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iconicity, lexical patterns, two-handed signs, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language ABSL, American Sign Language ASL, Israeli Sign Language ISL, Swedish Sign Language SSL
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URL: https://zenodo.org/record/834561 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.834561
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Taking Meaning In Hand: Iconic Motivations In Two-Handed Signs ...
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