{"title":"Türk İşaret Dilinde uyum","authors":"Bahtiyar Makaroğlu","doi":"10.1075/sll.00030.mak","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00030.mak","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43398,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45171957","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}
Concerted attention in sign language linguistics has focused on finding ways to document signs. Until now, most notation systems rely on a complex plethora of symbols and are under-specific, to the extent that visual images are still the most widely accepted way of recording primary data. This paper presents a novel phonetic notation of handshape in a step towards deriving an International Phonetic Alphabet for sign languages, based on digit shape (configuration) and position in terms of reference coordinates, aiming at both readability and precision. It is sufficiently hybrid to allow for both accurate measurements and estimates of digit positions, thereby affording a way of representing handshapes suitable for lexicography, studying phonetic variation and avatar programming. Originally tailored to describe handshapes in South African Sign Language, it can also notate gestures. After discussing transcription methods and hand physiology, digit configurations are defined in terms of joint angles. Variations in configuration positions are then specified in terms of Cartesian reference coordinates.
{"title":"Rethinking handshape","authors":"Ella Wehrmeyer","doi":"10.1075/sll.18001.weh","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.18001.weh","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Concerted attention in sign language linguistics has focused on\u0000 finding ways to document signs. Until now, most notation systems rely on a\u0000 complex plethora of symbols and are under-specific, to the extent that visual\u0000 images are still the most widely accepted way of recording primary data. This\u0000 paper presents a novel phonetic notation of handshape in a step towards deriving\u0000 an International Phonetic Alphabet for sign languages, based on digit shape\u0000 (configuration) and position in terms of reference coordinates, aiming at both\u0000 readability and precision. It is sufficiently hybrid to allow for both accurate\u0000 measurements and estimates of digit positions, thereby affording a way of\u0000 representing handshapes suitable for lexicography, studying phonetic variation\u0000 and avatar programming. Originally tailored to describe handshapes in South\u0000 African Sign Language, it can also notate gestures. After discussing\u0000 transcription methods and hand physiology, digit configurations are defined in\u0000 terms of joint angles. Variations in configuration positions are then specified\u0000 in terms of Cartesian reference coordinates.","PeriodicalId":43398,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48558858","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}
Davidson (2013) shows that in American Sign Language (ASL), conjunction and disjunction can be expressed by the same general use coordinator (cf. mary drink tea coord coffee ‘Mary drank tea and coffee; Mary drank tea or coffee.’). To derive these two meanings, she proposes an alternative semantic analysis whereby the two interpretations arise through universal or existential quantification over a set of alternatives licensed by (non-)linguistic cues, such as contexts and prosodic or lexical material. This paper provides supportive evidence for Davidson’s analysis from two other languages, Japanese and Japanese Sign Language. These languages are shown to employ general use coordination similar to that in ASL, but the general use coordinators in the three languages differ in one important respect: the locality of lexical elements that induce a disjunctive meaning. It is suggested that this cross-linguistic variation can be attributed to language-specific properties that concern the Q-particle discussed in Uegaki (2014, 2018).
{"title":"General use coordination in Japanese and Japanese Sign\u0000 Language","authors":"Yuko Asada","doi":"10.1075/sll.18003.asa","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.18003.asa","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 Davidson (2013) shows\u0000 that in American Sign Language (ASL), conjunction and disjunction can be\u0000 expressed by the same general use coordinator (cf. mary drink tea coord\u0000 coffee ‘Mary drank tea and coffee; Mary drank tea or coffee.’). To\u0000 derive these two meanings, she proposes an alternative semantic analysis whereby\u0000 the two interpretations arise through universal or existential quantification\u0000 over a set of alternatives licensed by (non-)linguistic cues, such as contexts\u0000 and prosodic or lexical material. This paper provides supportive evidence for\u0000 Davidson’s analysis from two other languages, Japanese and Japanese Sign\u0000 Language. These languages are shown to employ general use coordination similar\u0000 to that in ASL, but the general use coordinators in the three languages differ\u0000 in one important respect: the locality of lexical elements that induce a\u0000 disjunctive meaning. It is suggested that this cross-linguistic variation can be\u0000 attributed to language-specific properties that concern the Q-particle discussed\u0000 in Uegaki (2014, 2018).","PeriodicalId":43398,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48870821","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}