Measuring conventionalization in the manual modality

IF 2.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Savithry Namboodiripad, Daniel Lenzen, R. Lepic, T. Verhoef
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Abstract

Gestures produced by users of spoken languages differ from signs produced by users of sign languages in that gestures are more typically ad hoc and idiosyncratic, while signs are more typically conventionalized and shared within a language community. To measure how gestures may change over time as a result of the process of conventionalization, we used a social coordination game to elicit repeated silent gestures from hearing non-signers, and used Microsoft Kinect to unobtrusively track the movement of their bodies as they gestured. Our approach follows from a tradition of laboratory experiments designed to study language evolution and draws upon insights from sign language research on language emergence. Working with silent gesture, we were able to simulate and quantify hallmarks of conventionalization that have been described for sign languages, in the laboratory. With Kinect, we measured a reduction in the size of the articulatory space and a decrease in the distance traveled by the articulators, while communicative success increased between participants over time. This approach opens the door for more direct future comparisons between ad hoc gestures produced in the lab and natural sign languages in the world.
以手工方式测量约定俗成
口语使用者做出的手势不同于手语使用者做出的手势,因为手势更典型地是特别的和特殊的,而手势更典型地是约定俗成的,并在语言社区内共享。为了测量手势是如何随着时间的推移而改变的,我们使用了一个社交协调游戏,让听不到手语的人重复无声的手势,并使用微软Kinect在他们做手势时不引人注目地跟踪他们的身体运动。我们的方法遵循了传统的实验室实验,旨在研究语言进化,并借鉴了手语研究对语言出现的见解。通过使用无声手势,我们能够模拟和量化在实验室中描述的手语的约定化特征。使用Kinect,我们测量到发音空间的缩小和发音器移动距离的减少,而参与者之间的沟通成功率随着时间的推移而增加。这种方法为将来更直接地比较实验室中产生的特殊手势和世界上的自然手语打开了大门。
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Journal of Language Evolution
Journal of Language Evolution Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language
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