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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Sign language spatial modulation across sociohiohistorical contexts

博士论文研究：跨社会历史背景的手语空间调制

基本信息

批准号：
2020713
负责人：
Diane Brentari
金额：
$ 1.27万
依托单位：
University of Chicago
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2020713&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Sign language

项目摘要

Sign languages (SLs) are situated in the visual-spatial modality, and the body and hands are directly visible during communication. This affords SLs the use of three-dimensional space in fundamental ways. Space is used, or modulated, to refer to locations in an iconic way, allowing signers to place or move referents based on their real world locations or relative spatial configurations. Space is also modulated to track grammatical arguments—i.e., to introduce and maintain discourse referents. How signers weave both person and location referents throughout a discourse has been of great theoretical interest in the sign language linguistics literature. Among proposed frameworks, some reconcile these two uses of space within a single linguistic agreement analysis, while others employ both linguistic (morphemic) and non-linguistic (gestural) analyses rather than an entirely linguistic one.In order to better understand the origins and development of these two referent functions in differing linguistic environments, this research analyzes the distribution of spatial modulations (locative and argument) across three languages–American Sign Language (ASL) a well-established sign language over 300 years old, Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) young sign language of approximately 50 years old that is developing autonomously without outside influence, and Lengua de Señas Costarricense (LESCO) a young sign language that is developing in a situation with strong language contact with ASL. The student researcher will obtain language samples from three sub-groups of NSL and LESCO that represent earlier stages of grammatical development, using the “apparent time” hypothesis, and compare them with equivalent samples from the well-established sign language, ASL. The goal of this work is to tease apart the factors involved in deictic reference tracking in spatial events from its use in argument structure. The proposed research will also serve to further document under-studied sign languages, and to archive the data collected in a permanent, institutionally-maintained repository.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

手语处于视觉空间形态，在交流过程中肢体和手都是直接可见的。这使sl能够以基本方式使用三维空间。空间被用来或被调制，以一种标志性的方式指代位置，允许签名者根据他们的真实世界位置或相对空间配置来放置或移动指代物。空间也被调整以跟踪语法论点。，引入并维持语篇所指物。在手语语言学文献中，手语者如何在整个话语中编织人物和地点指涉物一直是一个非常有理论意义的问题。在提出的框架中，一些框架在单一的语言一致性分析中调和了这两种空间用途，而另一些框架则同时使用语言（语素）和非语言（手势）分析，而不是完全使用语言分析。为了更好地理解这两种参考功能在不同语言环境中的起源和发展，本研究分析了三种语言的空间调制（定位和论证）分布——美国手语（ASL）是一种300多年前建立的成熟手语，尼加拉瓜手语（NSL）是一种大约50岁的年轻手语，在没有外界影响的情况下自主发展。以及语语Señas (LESCO)，这是一种年轻的手语，在与美国手语有很强的语言联系的情况下发展起来。学生研究者将使用“表观时间”假设，从非母语和乐视语三个代表早期语法发展阶段的亚组中获取语言样本，并将其与公认的手语（美国手语）的等效样本进行比较。本研究的目的是梳理空间事件中指示指涉跟踪的因素及其在论证结构中的应用。拟议的研究还将有助于进一步记录研究不足的手语，并将收集到的数据存档到一个由机构维护的永久存储库中。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。