Kailie Dombrausky, M. L. Jensvold, Heidi L. Shaw, J. Q. Davis
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Abstract
Questions serve to initiate and continue conversation as well as to gain information and introduce new topics. In
signed languages a question can be signaled by modifying the content of an utterance or by coordinating the use of nonmanual
markers (e.g., the questioning look) and manual modulation (e.g., holding the sign for an extended duration). Cross-fostered
chimpanzees, who use signs of American Sign Language (ASL), have demonstrated behaviors that appear in human conversation,
including question-answer exchanges. The current study describes the production of questions by signing chimpanzees in a
conversational context and offers a methodology for quantifying the relationship between nonmanual markers and manual modulation
involved in interrogative utterances.
期刊介绍:
Gesture publishes articles reporting original research, as well as survey and review articles, on all aspects of gesture. The journal aims to stimulate and facilitate scholarly communication between the different disciplines within which work on gesture is conducted. For this reason papers written in the spirit of cooperation between disciplines are especially encouraged. Topics may include, but are by no means limited to: the relationship between gesture and speech; the role gesture may play in communication in all the circumstances of social interaction, including conversations, the work-place or instructional settings; gesture and cognition; the development of gesture in children.