A corpus study of mouthing and fingerspelling in Russian Sign Language: description and implications for cross-modal contact

虽然俄罗斯手语（RSL）的某些方面最近已经研究，但RSL语法中的许多主题仍然未（der）研究，并且对RSL中的手指拼写或口形一无所知。该项目旨在提供第一个详细的语料库为基础的描述，这两种现象在RSL，并显示他们如何承担目前的辩论，关于他们的语言地位，在手语。由于视觉-手势模态的特殊方面，手指拼写和口形是语言接触的特定情况，在口语中没有直接对应。由于指法和口型构成跨模态语言接触现象，本研究将提供进一步的见解，三种不同的模态（符号，语音和文字）的相互作用和语法系统（S）的基础上这种相互作用。该项目获得的见解如何口语和书面俄语，在口形和手指拼写的形式，结合和影响RSL。根据跨语言的本土化模型，将测试的过程中的手语词汇的俄语手写字母的手指拼写的单词的本土化。通过对RSL中一组频繁出现的符号的研究，探讨了mouthings的共现和变异，从而揭示了mouthings的语言学地位。在最近创建的RSL语料库（2012-2015年，俄罗斯新西伯利亚国立技术大学）中，将调查由59名本地RSL签名者提供的230个视频剪辑中包含超过100，000个签名的本地RSL签名者和本地RSL签名者之间产生的手指拼写和口形的发生情况。该项目增加了显着的RSL的文件，有助于在手语语法中的mouthing和fingerspelling的语言地位的辩论，并讨论了这两种现象如何适合现有的语音和形态模型的手语和双峰双语研究。

While some selected aspects of Russian Sign Language (RSL) have recently been researched, many topics in the grammar of RSL remain un(der)studied and nothing is known about fingerspelling or mouthing in RSL. This project aims at providing the first detailed corpus-based description of these two phenomena in RSL and showing how they bear on current debates regarding their linguistic status in sign languages. Due to particular aspects of the visual-gestural modality, fingerspelling and mouthing are specific cases of language contact that do not have a direct equivalent in spoken languages. Inasmuch as fingerspelling and mouthing constitute cross-modal language contact phenomena, this study will provide further insights into the interaction of three different modalities (sign, speech and writing) and the grammatical system(s) underlying this interaction. The project gains insights into how the spoken and written Russian, in the form of mouthing and fingerspelling, combines with and affects RSL. The processes of nativization of fingerspelled words of the Russian manual alphabet into the sign language lexicon will be tested according to the cross-linguistic nativization model. By investigating the co-occurrence and variation of mouthings on the basis of a set of frequently occurring signs in RSL, the project will shed light on the linguistic status of mouthings. The occurrences of fingerspelling and mouthing will be investigated as they are produced by and between native RSL signers in the recently created RSL Corpus (2012-2015, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia) containing more than 100,000 signs in 230 video clips presented by 59 native RSL signers. The project adds significantly to the documentation of RSL, contributes to the debate on the linguistic status of mouthing and fingerspelling in sign language grammar, and discusses how these two phenomena suit the existing phonological and morphological models in the sign language and bimodal bilingualism research.