Hesitation Markers in Sign Language of the Netherlands A Corpus-Based Study

IF 0.5 Q3 LINGUISTICS

Sign Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1353/sls.2023.0001

Laura Spijker, M. Oomen

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Abstract

Abstract:We present one of the first detailed studies on hesitation marking in a sign language. Based on the analysis of a set of monologues and dialogues from the Corpus NGT (Crasborn and Zwitserlood 2008; Crasborn, Zwitserlood, and Ros 2008), we describe the form and position of manual and nonmanual markers of hesitation in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). We show that palm-up, used as a hesitation marker, is akin to a "filled pause" in spoken language, both in its formal properties and its distribution. palm-up is regularly used to mark hesitation in dialogues, but far less commonly in monologues, which we suggest indicates that palm-up is used deliberately by signers to signal a delay in signing (cf. e.g., Maclay and Osgood 1959). Other manual markers of hesitation include sign holds and breaks in signing; their form and patterning in the data suggest they are closer to "unfilled pauses" in speech. As for nonmanuals, we show that all instances of hesitation in our data are marked by a change in the direction of eye gaze, suggesting that this is a clear pragmatic cue that signers use—intentionally or not—to signal a planning problem in signing. This fits well with previous observations that eye gaze plays an important role in turn-taking regulation in sign languages (e.g., Baker 1977).

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基于语料库的荷兰语手语犹豫标记语研究

摘要：我们首次对手语中的犹豫标记进行了详细的研究。基于对语料库NGT中一组独白和对话的分析（Crasborn和Zwitserlood 2008；Crasborn、Zwitserroad和Ros 2008），我们描述了荷兰手语中手动和非手动犹豫标记的形式和位置。我们发现，无论是在形式性质还是分布上，手掌向上作为犹豫标记，都类似于口语中的“充满停顿”。在对话中，手掌向上经常被用来标记犹豫，但在独白中则不太常见，我们认为这表明签名者故意使用手掌向上来表示签名延迟（例如，Maclay和Osgood 1959）。犹豫的其他手动标记包括手势保持和手势中断；数据中他们的形式和模式表明，他们在演讲中更接近“未填充的停顿”。至于非手动的，我们发现，我们数据中所有犹豫的例子都以眼睛凝视方向的变化为标志，这表明这是一个明显的语用提示，签名者有意或无意地使用它来表示签名中的计划问题。这与之前的观察结果非常吻合，即眼睛凝视在手语的轮流调节中发挥着重要作用（例如，Baker 1977）。

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Sign Language Studies LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

1.80

自引率

6.70%

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期刊介绍： Sign Language Studies publishes a wide range of original scholarly articles and essays relevant to signed languages and signing communities. The journal provides a forum for the dissemination of important ideas and opinions concerning these languages and the communities who use them. Topics of interest include linguistics, anthropology, semiotics, Deaf culture, and Deaf history and literature.