Location Variation in American Sign Language
Location Variation in American Sign Language
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美国手语的位置变化
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2002
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Alyssa Wulf
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Ceil Lucas;R. Bayley;M. Rose;Alyssa Wulf
这篇文章，一个更大的项目，研究社会语言学的变化在美国手语的一部分，检查的变化，在一类美国手语的标志，例如动词知道，这在他们的位置不同。通常这些迹象是在前额产生的，但经常在较低的水平产生。对来自美国7个地点的200多名签名者的大约2900个此类符号的分析表明，诸如“知道”之类的符号的降低受到语言和社会因素的限制，这些因素与口语的变化平行。来自三个不同年龄组的签名者的结果也提供了进展变化的证据。尽管相似的变化，在口语中，结果的几个社会因素是最好的解释聋人的历史和聋人社区的结构。
This article, part of a larger project that studied sociolinguistic variation in American Sign Language, examines that variation in a class of American Sign Language signs exemplified by the verb know, which vary in their location. Usually these signs are produced at the forehead, but frequently they are produced at a lower level. Analysis of approximately twenty-nine hundred tokens of signs of this class from more than two hundred signers in seven U.S. sites shows that the lowering of signs such as know is constrained by both linguistic and social factors that parallel variation in spoken languages. Results from signers of three different age groups also provide evidence of change in progress. Despite similarities to variation in spoken languages, results for several social factors are best explained by reference to Deaf history and to the structure of the Deaf community.