ASL Perception and Production: Evidence from Eye Tracking

ASL 感知和产生：来自眼动追踪的证据

• 批准号: 0216791
• 负责人: Karen Emmorey
• 金额: $ 33万
• 依托单位: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-15 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0216791&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ASL; Perception; Production; Evidence; Eye

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Karen Emmorey will conduct three years of psycholinguistic research on the the perception and production of American Sign Language (ASL). This project includes the first experiments using head-mounted eye tracking technology to study eye behaviors of signers. One set of studies will investigate the social and conversational functions of eye gaze during sign perception. Deaf signing dyads and hearing speaking dyads will be compared to identify perceptual, linguistic, and social demands on eye gaze for signed versus spoken language interactions. A second set of studies will investigate eye movements during sign production. These studies address the grammatical functions of eye gaze in ASL and identify how signers co-ordinate their eye movements with the linguistic structure of signed sentences. Tthe project will also compare the eye behaviors of native deaf signers with adult late learners (hearing and deaf) during sign perception and production. The study of signed languages is essential to an understanding of the nature of human language universals and variation. It is also significant for the development of second language programs that train sign language interpreters, as well as instructors for deaf education programs. The use of eye gaze to mark linguistic structure is unique to signed languages, and the results of this project will provide insight into how language modality can affect grammatical encoding. The project will also identify how second language learners must alter their eye gaze patterns during both sign language perception and production. Finally, deafness has a substantial impact on the ability of students to gain access to academic and scientific careers, and this project aims to promote the participation of deaf people in research by supporting a deaf graduate student and providing a research environment accessible to deaf students.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，Karen Emmorey博士将对美国手语（ASL）的感知和产生进行为期三年的心理语言学研究。该项目包括首次使用头戴式眼动追踪技术研究签名者的眼动行为的实验。其中一组研究将调查在符号感知过程中眼睛凝视的社会和会话功能。聋人签署二人组和听力说话二人组将进行比较，以确定感性，语言和社会需求的眼睛凝视签署与口头语言的互动。第二组研究将调查在标志生产过程中的眼球运动。这些研究解决了眼睛注视在美国手语的语法功能，并确定如何签署者协调他们的眼睛运动的语言结构签署的句子。本项目还将比较本族聋人手语者与成年后学习者（听力正常者和聋人）在手语感知和产生过程中的眼行为。 手语的研究对于理解人类语言共性和变异的本质至关重要。这对发展培训手语翻译的第二语言方案以及聋人教育方案的教员也很重要。使用眼睛凝视来标记语言结构是手语所独有的，这个项目的结果将提供深入了解语言模态如何影响语法编码。该项目还将确定第二语言学习者在手语感知和产生过程中必须如何改变他们的眼睛注视模式。最后，耳聋对学生从事学术和科学职业的能力有着重大影响，该项目旨在通过支持一名耳聋研究生和为耳聋学生提供一个无障碍的研究环境，促进聋人参与研究。