A Crosslinguistic Comparison of Buoys. Evidence from American, Norwegian, and Swedish Sign Language

Liddell, Scott K.; Vogt-Svendsen, Marit; Bergman, Brita

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“…Throughout this stretch of discourse, the signer pointed back to her fingertips to refer to each of the four dancers she was describing. The use of the fingers of the non-dominant hand has been observed for a number of sign languages, including American, Norwegian, and Swedish Sign Languages (Liddell, Vogt-Svendsen, & Bergman 2007). The phenomenon is known as "list buoys" and is described most clearly by Liddell (2003: Chapter 10) in a story called "The Five Brothers".…”

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Sign-spatiality in Kata Kolok

Vos

2013

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“…The anaphoric use of list buoys has previously been described in a number of sign languages that also deploy localisation (Liddell, Vogt-Svendsen, & Bergman 2007). In the case of Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, however, this structure appears to be used solely for enumeration (Zeshan 2000:101d).…”

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Sign-spatiality in Kata Kolok

Vos

2013

SL&L

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“…In all cases, they can be analysed without the need for a new concept like 'buoy' that is unknown in the linguistics of spoken languages. In addition, the corpus data that were analysed for NGT and RSL show that in these languages, there is no straightforward mapping between the type of sign and the function of the hold in the way that Liddell and others have argued for ASL, Swedish Sign Language and Norwegian Sign Language (Liddell 2003, Liddell, Vogt-Svendsen and Bergman 2007, Nilsson 2010.…”

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“…Perhaps the most widely known approach to weak hand holds is the analysis first developed by Liddell (2003;Liddell, Vogt-Svendsen, and Bergman 2007), who emphasised the role of holds in the structuring of discourse. He introduced the now widely used notion of buoys: formally defined as weak hand holds which have discourse-related functional properties.…”

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Towards a Classification of Weak Hand Holds

2016

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Abstract:The two symmetrical manual articulators (the hands) in signed languages are a striking modalityspecific phonetic property. The weak hand can maintain the end position of an articulation while the other articulator continues to produce additional signs. This weak hand spreading (hold) has been analysed from various perspectives, highlighting its prosodic, syntactic, or discourse properties. The present study investigates corpus data from Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) and Russian Sign Language (RSL), two unrelated sign languages, in order to question the necessity of a sign-language specific notion of 'buoy' introduced in the discourse analysis of American Sign Language by Liddell (2003). Buoys are defined as weak hand holds that serve as a visible landmark throughout a stretch of discourse, and several types are distinguished based on their function and form. In the analysis of nearly two and a half hours of narratives and conversations from NGT and RSL, we found over 600 weak hand holds. We show that these holds can be analysed in terms of regular phonetic, syntactic, semantic, or discourse notions (or a combination thereof) familiar from the linguistic study of spoken languages, without the need for a sign language-specific notion of 'buoy'.

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“…5 Parts of the SSLC have already been used as a dataset for some recent student theses written by students in our department (cf. Börstell 2011, Thofelt 2011, Mårtensson 2012) and will serve as a basis for a number of current and upcoming research projects intended to enhance the functionality of the SSLC (Börstell et al 2014). Results from the project, in the form of video files and annotated files, will eventually be available for other researchers and teachers.…”

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Gloss annotations in the Swedish Sign Language Corpus

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Wallin²

2015

IJCL

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The Swedish Sign Language Corpus (SSLC) was compiled during the years 2009-2011 and consists of video-recorded conversations with 42 informants between the ages of 20 and 82 from three separate regions in Sweden. The overall aim of the project was to create a corpus of Swedish Sign Language (SSL) that could provide a core data source for research on language structure and use, as well as for dictionary work. A portion of the corpus has been annotated with glosses for signs and Swedish translations, and annotation of the entire corpus is ongoing. In this paper, we outline our scheme for gloss annotation and discuss issues that are relevant in creating the annotation system, with unique glosses for lexical signs, fingerspelling and productive signs. The annotation guidelines discussed in this paper cover both one-and two-handed signs in SSL, based on 33,600 tokens collected for the SSLC.

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A Crosslinguistic Comparison of Buoys. Evidence from American, Norwegian, and Swedish Sign Language

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