Mouth Position &amp; Mouth Movement in Norwegian Sign Language

Vogt-Svendsen, Marit

doi:10.1353/sls.1981.0004

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“…‘looplooploop’, English ‘walkwalkwalk’). These repetitions typically follow the repetition of the manual movements (see Section 3.3 below), which appear to be identical to aspectual modulations of the sign's movement indicating a repeated action (see Vogt-Svendsen 2001 for a similar pattern in Norwegian Sign Language). The rhythmic parallel is similar to what Woll (2001) called ‘echo phonology’: identity of movement properties between hands and mouth.…”

Section: Marking Focus In Ngtmentioning

confidence: 85%

The phonology of focus in Sign Language of the Netherlands

Crasborn

Kooij

2013

J. Ling.

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Signed languages are similar to spoken languages in the overall organisation of their grammars, displaying a prosodic level of organisation that is not isomorphic to the syntactic organisation. Their rich inventory of manual and non-manual features allows for a prolific range of functions if used prosodically. New data from Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT, Nederlandse Gebarentaal) are discussed to demonstrate that focused constituents are not marked by a single prosodic feature, but rather by multiple properties that can also have other functions in the prosodic phonology of the language. These findings are integrated in an overall model of sign language prosody that emphasises the distinction between phonetic appearance and phonological representation and that allows for the interaction of linguistic and paralinguistic cues in visual communication.

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Section: Marking Focus In Ngtmentioning

confidence: 85%

The phonology of focus in Sign Language of the Netherlands

Crasborn

Kooij

2013

J. Ling.

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“…After Vogt-Svendsen's (1981 pioneering studies on Norwegian Sign Language, one of the first in-depth descriptions of the co-occurring activity of the hands and the mouth is Schermer's (1990) dissertation on NGT. Schermer analysed the signing of six informants who retold a written story and a story from a picture book, and who, in addition, were engaged in a short stretch of spontaneous conversation.…”

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The ubiquity of mouthings in NGT: A corpus study

Bank¹

2015

SL&L

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Examples are HAIR with the mouthing blond ('blond') for 'blond hair', or ARRIVE with the mouthing thuis ('home') for 'arrive at home'. Third, mouthings can specify the sign they accompany by indicating time and/or person. An example is TO-COME with the mouthing kwam ('came'), to specify the sign for past tense, singular (all examples from Schermer, 1990: 125-127). The majority of mouthings, however, fall in the 'redundant' categories. Schermer notes that the fact that a redundant mouthing does not seem to fulfil a specific function in the language, does not rule out that the articulatory movements and the lip/mouth pictures are not necessary for the deaf signer. That is why the term 'redundant' should not be interpreted as 'superfluous' (Schermer, 1990: 137) Studies on other sign languages suggested comparable functionalities (cf.

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“…Sometimes mouth gestures add information about manner or degree, and in yet other cases, they are simply co-articulated with the sign without contributing any special meaning, even though they appear to be obligatory. Many studies have described mouthings and mouth gestures (Ebbinghaus & Hessmann (2001) for DGS; Rainò (2001) for Finnish Sign Language (FinSL); Sutton-Spence & Woll (1999) and Lewin & Schembri (2011) for BSL; Vogt-Svendsen (1983) for Norwegian Sign Language (NSL), Sutton-Spence & Boyes Braem (2001) and Crasborn et al (2008) for BSL, NGT and Swedish Sign Language (SSL); and Bank et al (2011) and Bank (2014) for NGT), and there is much debate in the field of sign language research on the linguistic status of mouthings, namely on the question whether they are part of the phonological specification of signs or should rather be considered a performance phenomenon due to language contact. In Section 5, we will propose that they assign a range to an open syntactic position (see Section 5).…”

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The noun-verb distinction in Catalan Sign Language

Ribera-Llonc

Espinal

Quer

2019

SL&L

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This paper investigates the morpho-phonological differences between the members of related noun-verb pairs in Catalan Sign Language. Like parallel investigations in other sign languages, our experimental work provides evidence that the major differentiating factors between related nouns and verbs materialize in the movement component of signs and non-manual markers, thus providing empirical support to the hypothesis that most noun-verb pairs have different morpho-phonological properties. We distinguish different types of movements, which we categorize into four regular morphological subgroups. We also take into account a fifth group that shows no apparent movement distinction. Concerning non-manual markers, we provide empirical evidence that nouns are mostly produced simultaneously with mouthing, in contrast to verbs, which in a smaller proportion are produced mainly with mouth gestures. Crucially, the fifth group presents the largest ratio of mouthing for nouns and even for verbs. We address these findings within an exo-skeletal theoretical syntactic approach (Borer 2005a,b, 2013, 2014).

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Mouth Position & Mouth Movement in Norwegian Sign Language

Cited by 28 publications

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The phonology of focus in Sign Language of the Netherlands

The phonology of focus in Sign Language of the Netherlands

The ubiquity of mouthings in NGT: A corpus study

The noun-verb distinction in Catalan Sign Language

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