Comparing sign language and gesture: Insights from pointing
Comparing sign language and gesture: Insights from pointing
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DOI：
10.5334/gjgl.499
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发表时间：
2019-01-03
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通讯作者：
Goldin-Meadow, Susan
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作者：
Fenlon, Jordan;Cooperrider, Kensy;Goldin-Meadow, Susan
手语的符号与说话者说话时的手势有何不同？我们通过专注于指向来解决这个问题。指向符号在手语中起着重要的作用，某些类型的功能类似于口语中的代词（例如，Sandler & Lillo-Martin 2006）。相比之下，指向手势虽然在日常交流中扮演着重要的角色，但通常不会用语言学术语来描述。研究人员关注的是指向签名者和说话者之间的相似性（例如，Corpus et al. 2013），但迄今为止还没有研究在细粒度水平上直接比较两者。在本文中，我们比较了574指向英国手语签署者（BSL语料库）和543指向手势产生的美国英语（Tavis Smiley语料库）方面的三个特点，通常与语言系统：约定化，减少和整合的形成特征。我们发现，虽然指向符号和指向手势都表现出形式的多样性，指向符号是更一致的跨使用，更减少，更集成到韵律结构比指向手势。因此，当它是沿着与一个有符号的语言与当它是沿着与一个口头语言产生指向不同的约束，我们讨论这些约束的可能来源。
How do the signs of sign language differ from the gestures that speakers produce when they talk? We address this question by focusing on pointing. Pointing signs play an important role in sign languages, with some types functioning like pronouns in spoken language (e.g., Sandler & Lillo-Martin 2006). Pointing gestures, in contrast, are not usually described in linguistic terms even though they play an important role in everyday communication. Researchers have focused on the similarities between pointing in signers and speakers (e.g., Cormier et al. 2013), but no studies to date have directly compared the two at a fine-grained level. In this paper, we compare the formational features of 574 pointing signs produced by British Sign Language signers (BSL Corpus) and 543 pointing gestures produced by American English speakers (Tavis Smiley Corpus) with respect to three characteristics typically associated with language systems: conventionalization, reduction, and integration. We find that, although pointing signs and pointing gestures both exhibit regularities of form, pointing signs are more consistent across uses, more reduced, and more integrated into prosodic structure than pointing gestures. Pointing is thus constrained differently when it is produced along with a signed language vs. when it is produced along with a spoken language; we discuss possible sources of these constraints.