Grammatical Regularities in Sign Language and Homesign

手语和手语的语法规律

• 批准号: 0547554
• 负责人: Diane Brentari
• 金额: $ 62.5万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0547554&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Grammatical; Regularities; Sign; Language; Homesign

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Diane Brentari will conduct five years of linguistic research on the handshapes used in well-established sign languages and in the invented systems used by deaf individuals who have not been exposed to a signed or spoken languages, called 'homesign' systems. Three different deaf populations that use a visual-gestural system as their primary means of communication will be studied: native signers of Italian Sign Language (adults and children); Italian homesigning children, and Nicaraguan homesigners(adults and children). The populations are all from environments where gesture is also a strong part of the language environment. The data will come from descriptions of events of motion and location.The scientific questions addressed by this project are the following. First, how do grammatical properties in syntax, phonology, and morphology emerge in the case of children acquiring a language from their parents vs. when children are inventing their own systems of gestures without language input from their families? Second, what aspects of grammar are more or less robust in the case of acquisition case vs. the case of invention and at what age? Third, do homesign systems become more sophisticated when they are used as the primary means of communication over the course of a lifetime, as is the case in homesigning adults in Nicaragua? Finally, this research will contribute to our understanding of the evolution of language because homesigners are inventing communication anew in a way that is not possible to observe in the realm of spoken languages; this particlar moment of spoken language history was not recorded in a way that it can be studied with contemporary means. In addition to its scientific merit, this project will recruit native-signing Deaf undergraduate and graduate students to help analyze data, and so provide an opportunity for these students to engage in first-hand scientific research on sign languages.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，戴安娜·布伦塔里（Diane Brentari）博士将对尚未公开的标志语言中使用的手法以及未接触过签名或口语的聋人使用的系统进行了五年的语言研究，称为“ Homesign”系统。将研究使用视觉示意系统作为主要交流手段的三个不同的聋人种群：意大利语语言的本地签名者（成人和儿童）；意大利家庭签名儿童和尼加拉瓜的家庭签名（成人和儿童）。人群全部来自手势也是语言环境中有很大一部分的环境。 数据将来自运动和位置事件的描述。该项目解决的科学问题如下。 首先，如果孩子从父母那里获取一种语言而与孩子发明自己的手势系统，而没有家人的语言输入，则如何从父母那里获取语言，而语法，语音学和形态的语法特性如何出现？其次，在获取案例的情况下，与发明案例和在哪个年龄的情况下，语法的哪些方面或多或少是强大的？ 第三，当寄宿系统被用作一生中的主要交流手段时，它们是否会变得更加复杂，就像尼加拉瓜的家庭签名成年人一样？ 最后，这项研究将有助于我们对语言演变的理解，因为家庭签名者正在以一种无法在口语语言领域观察的方式重新发明沟通。这一特别的口语历史时刻并未以当代手段进行研究的方式记录。 除了其科学优点外，该项目还将招募本地签名的聋人本科生和研究生来帮助分析数据，从而为这些学生提供有关符号语言的第一手科学研究的机会。