{"title":"Iconicity as a pervasive force in language","authors":"Mary Edward","doi":"10.1075/sll.00079.edw","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00079.edw","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171449,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":"77 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139240192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Esharani grammatical sketch: An initial description of the lexicon and grammar","authors":"Ardavan Guity","doi":"10.1075/sll.00077.gui","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00077.gui","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171449,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134128246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Word order in simple sentences of tri-lingual tri-modal deaf students*","authors":"Rama Novogrodsky, R. Stamp, Sabrin Shaban-Rabah","doi":"10.1075/sll.22002.nov","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.22002.nov","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study explores word order patterns produced by deaf students who use Israeli Sign Language (ISL) and Arabic.\u0000 Nineteen students participated in a sentence elicitation task in which they retold events portrayed in 24 short videos in three\u0000 language conditions: signed ISL, spoken Palestinian Arabic and written Modern Standard Arabic. A control group of 19 hearing\u0000 students was tested in the two Arabic conditions. Results showed that SVO word order was the most frequent in both groups, and in\u0000 all three languages. SOV word order, which is common in ISL but ungrammatical in Arabic, was produced only by the deaf group.\u0000 Finally, unique word orders, specific to the signed modality were produced only in the ISL condition. The findings suggest that\u0000 deaf students are sensitive to the syntactic structures of each language they use and show natural cross-linguistic interaction in\u0000 their language use.","PeriodicalId":171449,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125582894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subject agreement in control and modal constructions in Russian Sign Language","authors":"E. Khristoforova","doi":"10.1075/sll.21005.khr","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.21005.khr","url":null,"abstract":"The present research combines three fields of inquiry in sign language linguistics: verbal agreement, person features, and syntactic complexity. These topics have previously been addressed in isolation, but little is known about their interaction. This study attempts to fill this gap by investigating subject agreement in complement clauses in Russian Sign Language. By means of corpus investigation and grammaticality judgments, I found that subject agreement in clausal complements of the control predicates try, love, want, begin, and modal can may be deficient – in particular, it can be reduced to the forms identical to first-person marking even in the case of a third-person subject controller. Deficient subject agreement in complement clauses is thus reminiscent of non-finite verbal forms in spoken languages. I further argue that the choice of first-person forms in deficient agreement reveals a default status of first person in sign languages, which is consistent with proposals regarding the modality-specific properties of first-person reference in these languages.","PeriodicalId":171449,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116650699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The count-mass distinction in Hong Kong Sign Language","authors":"Emily Koenders","doi":"10.1075/sll.00075.koe","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00075.koe","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171449,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116264415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies for new word formation in NGT","authors":"Els van der Kooij, I. Zwitserlood, O. Crasborn","doi":"10.1075/sll.20001.van","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.20001.van","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 How do new words arise in a sign language? We present an empirical study of newly formed words in Sign Language of\u0000 the Netherlands (NGT). Five signers were asked to create new forms for known concepts for which word forms exist in NGT.\u0000 Participants used sequential strategies for word formation, also found in spoken languages. More frequently, however, they used\u0000 simultaneous strategies, some of which are unique for the visual-manual modality. We describe and discuss each strategy and focus\u0000 on the most prominent of these, namely the simultaneous combination of meaningful form elements (Form-Meaning Units or FMUs). The\u0000 abundance of simultaneous combinations of FMUs in our data cannot be explained in terms of concatenative morphology. We propose an\u0000 account for word formation phenomena in NGT that uses the phonological segment as the template for simultaneous combinations of\u0000 FMUs. This study shows that the FMUs function as basic building blocks for words and accordingly can be considered morphemes.\u0000 Given the large set of FMUs in NGT and their frequent occurrence in the newly formed lexical words in our data, we argue for the\u0000 acknowledgement of more morphological complexity within the lexicon of sign languages and for a re-evaluation of the relation\u0000 between sign language phonology, morphology, and syntax.","PeriodicalId":171449,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":"1481 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127443225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne Wienholz, Derya Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan, N. Mani, A. Herrmann, Edgar Onea, M. Steinbach
{"title":"Neurophysiological evidence for the first mention effect during pronominal reference resolution in German Sign\u0000 Language","authors":"Anne Wienholz, Derya Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan, N. Mani, A. Herrmann, Edgar Onea, M. Steinbach","doi":"10.1075/sll.22006.wie","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.22006.wie","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Anaphoric pronoun resolution in spoken language has been shown to be influenced by the first mention bias. While\u0000 this bias has been well investigated in spoken languages, less is known about a similar bias in sign languages. In sign languages,\u0000 pronominal pointing signs (index) are directed towards referential locations in the signing space typically associated with\u0000 discourse referents. In German Sign Language (DGS), signers follow an ipsi-contralateral default pattern while tracking referents,\u0000 i.e., the first referent is associated with the ipsilateral and the second referent with the contralateral area of the signing\u0000 space. Hence, directing a pronoun to either the ipsi- or the contralateral side of the signing space refers to either the first or\u0000 the second discourse referent. The present event-related potential study reanalyzes the data from Wienholz et al. (2018) and examines the first mention effect during pronoun resolution in ambiguous\u0000 contexts in DGS. The original study presented participants with sentence sets containing two referents without overt localization\u0000 in the first and a sentence-initial pronominal index sign in the second sentence directed to either the ipsilateral or\u0000 contralateral side of the signing space. Based on the direction of the index sign, our analysis reveals an N400 for contralateral\u0000 index signs suggesting increased processing costs triggered by a violation of the first mention effect. Thus, the current study\u0000 provides first experimental evidence for a first mention effect in DGS and highlights the modality-independent nature of this\u0000 effect.","PeriodicalId":171449,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115690781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}