Units of sub-sign meaning in NGT

IF 0.4 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Sign Language & Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-23 DOI:10.1075/sll.20009.van

Inge Zwitserlood, Els van der Kooij, Onno Crasborn

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Abstract

Abstract This paper provides an overview of all the meaningful sub-sign form units (form-meaning units; FMUs) in lexical signs in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). We investigated the potential meaning of all form features that were previously established in analyses of NGT form by analyzing their distribution in lexical signs. The data set consisted of 500 NGT signs in the lexical database Global Signbank, and a set of 163 elicited newly-formed lexical signs. All features in these data sets appear to bear meaning (at least once). No completely arbitrary features were found, and some features appeared to be always associated to a specific meaning. This toolkit and the set of FMUs in NGT provides a possible basis for cross-linguistic study and for a more fine-grained approach in various research disciplines, for instance psycholinguistics and acquisition, and it may thus advance the theoretical and applied study of sign languages.

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NGT中子符号意义的单位

摘要本文概述了所有有意义的子符号形式单元(形式-意义单元;荷兰手语(NGT)中词汇符号中的FMUs。我们通过分析它们在词汇符号中的分布，研究了以前在NGT形式分析中建立的所有形式特征的潜在含义。数据集由词汇数据库Global Signbank中的500个NGT符号和163个新形成的词汇符号组成。这些数据集中的所有特征似乎都有意义(至少一次)。没有发现完全任意的特征，有些特征似乎总是与特定的含义相关联。该工具包和NGT中的fmu集为跨语言研究和各种研究学科(如心理语言学和习得)的更细粒度方法提供了可能的基础，从而可能推动手语的理论和应用研究。

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期刊介绍： Sign Language & Linguistics is a peer-reviewed, international journal which aims to increase our understanding of language by providing an academic forum for researchers to discuss sign languages in the larger context of natural language, crosslinguistically and crossmodally. SLL presents studies that apply existing theoretical insights to sign language in order to further our understanding of SL; it investigates and expands our knowledge of grammar based on the study of SL and it specifically addresses the effect of modality (signed vs. spoken) on the structure of grammar.