Exploring the bimodal capacity of human language. A sociolinguistic study of language contact in the Hungarian Deaf Community

该项目的重点是记录匈牙利聋人社区使用双模态双语的情况。双语聋人使用匈牙利语口语和匈牙利手语（Magyar Jelnyelv，MJNY）。这两种语言属于不同的模态（语音-语音和视觉-手势）。因此，语言使用者可以在他们的签名话语中加入口语元素。根据我的博士论文的分析，这种接触情况导致了口语中尚未记录的语言现象。该项目的目标是获得这种独特的双峰语言表达的一般理解。这项研究将表明，语言交际远远超出了一种语言和一种模态，而不是传统上在语言学中处理。本研究扩展了博士论文关于匈牙利语口形变化模式的研究成果，并对手语者的双语话语形态模式进行了研究。在第一部分的分析中，研究了手语者将口形变化标记与手势语结构中的语法意义相匹配的策略。第二部分的实证研究包括一个判断测试，该测试填写了一份关于手势语的语法意义的表格。第三部分的分析包括一个关于手势语的语法意义的表格。第四部分的分析包括一个关于手势语的语法意义的表格。第五部分的分析包括一个关于手势语的语法意义的表格，以及一个关于手势语的语法意义的表格。第六部分的分析包括一个关于手势语的语法意义的表格，以及一个关于手势语的语法意义的表格由MJNY的本地签名者。他们的任务是根据各种标准，将带有匈牙利口型的手语置于语言接触连续体中，以或多或少接近匈牙利手语。这将为动态双语语言使用的某些特征模式提供语言学证据。基于对双语话语的实证分析，本文进一步讨论了这一特定语言使用的理论意义。据推测，MJNY签名者不仅产生在匈牙利语和MJNY的话语，但可以使用第三个系统，一个独特的和单独着色的模式集从两种语言。本研究的挑战是建立一个手语双语动态语言使用的工作模型，其研究结果将有助于对研究不足的少数民族语言MJNY的记录。以经验为基础的模型将提供一个独特的洞察双语双峰语言生产的未开发的能力，并扩展我们的理解是什么可能在人类的语言能力。

The project focuses on the documentation of the bimodal bilingual language use in the Deaf Community in Hungary. Bilingual Deaf people use both spoken Hungarian and Hungarian Sign Language (Magyar Jelnyelv, MJNY). The two languages belong to different modalities (auditory-vocal and visual-gestural). As a result, language users can incorporate spoken elements in their signed utterances. According to the analysis of my doctoral thesis, this contact situation leads to linguistic phenomena not yet documented among spoken languages. The goal of the project is to gain a general understanding of this unique bimodal expression of language. The research will show that linguistic communication goes way beyond one language and one modality than it is traditionally dealt with in linguistics. The project extends the findings of the doctoral dissertation on the inflectional patterns of mouthings in MJNY and examines the morphological patterns of bilingual utterances of signers.In the first part of the analysis a corpus is investigated to find strategies of signers for matching Hungarian inflectional markers in mouthings with the grammatical meaning in the manual sign structure.The second part of the empirical study involves a judgement test filled out by native signers of MJNY. Their task is to place sign utterances with Hungarian mouthings on a language contact continuum, based on various criteria, as to being more or less close to Hungarian Sign Language. This will supplement the linguistic evidence on certain characteristic patterns of the dynamic bilingual language use.Based on the empirical analysis of bilingual utterances, further theoretical implications of this specific language use are discussed. It is assumed that MJNY signers not just produce utterances in Hungarian and MJNY, but can use a third system, a unique and individually colored set of patterns from both languages. The challenge is to draw a working model of the dynamic language use in sign bilingual utterances.The findings of this project will contribute to the documentation of the under-researched minority language MJNY. The empirically based model will offer a unique insight into the unexplored capacity of bilingual bimodal language production and extends our understanding of what is possible in the human language faculty.