Movement and Rhythm in Nursery Rhymes in LSF

Blondel, Marion; Miller, Christopher R.

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“…Such features are more integrated in embodied songs than their acoustic counterparts because they are performed simultaneously, by one individual, and draw on the established, expressive lexicon of sign languages. For more detailed discussion of sign language specific elements in song-signing (see Maler, 2013Maler, , 2015 as well as overlapping work on sign poetry by Mirzoeff (1995), Blondel and Miller (2001), Russo et al (2001), and Sutton-Spence ( 2005).…”

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Embodied Songs: Insights Into the Nature of Cross-Modal Meaning-Making Within Sign Language Informed, Embodied Interpretations of Vocal Music

Fisher

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Embodied song practices involve the transformation of songs from the acoustic modality into an embodied-visual form, to increase meaningful access for d/Deaf audiences. This goes beyond the translation of lyrics, by combining poetic sign language with other bodily movements to embody the para-linguistic expressive and musical features that enhance the message of a song. To date, the limited research into this phenomenon has focussed on linguistic features and interactions with rhythm. The relationship between bodily actions and music has not been probed beyond an assumed implication of conformance. However, as the primary objective is to communicate equivalent meanings, the ways that the acoustic and embodied-visual signals relate to each other should reveal something about underlying conceptual agreement. This paper draws together a range of pertinent theories from within a grounded cognition framework including semiotics, analogy mapping and cross-modal correspondences. These theories are applied to embodiment strategies used by prominent d/Deaf and hearing Dutch practitioners, to unpack the relationship between acoustic songs, their embodied representations, and their broader conceptual and affective meanings. This leads to the proposition that meaning primarily arises through shared patterns of internal relations across a range of amodal and cross-modal features with an emphasis on dynamic qualities. These analogous patterns can inform metaphorical interpretations and trigger shared emotional responses. This exploratory survey offers insights into the nature of cross-modal and embodied meaning-making, as a jumping-off point for further research.

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Embodied Songs: Insights Into the Nature of Cross-Modal Meaning-Making Within Sign Language Informed, Embodied Interpretations of Vocal Music

Fisher

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Or, comme Cuxac, Miller, Blondel et Tuller le rappellent dans ce numéro, le statut du mouvement dans la phonologie des LS est l'enjeu d'un vaste débat, essentiel, selon nous, et qui implique une plus large discussion autour d'un modèle phonologique de la syllabe dans les LS. Blondel et Miller (1999) signalent en effet des modifications poétiques affectant la structure syllabique des signes comme on en trouve dans les comptines des langues orales. Des mouvements de transition (entre signes et internes au signe) sont par exemple ajoutés, allongés ou supprimés, et ces transformations modifient alors le nombre d'unités rythmiques (voir Miller, dans ce numéro); or pour les LO, Arleo et Flament (1988) comparent des versions narratives et des versions pouffées de comptines en français et remarquent que le traitement spécifique du schwa dans la version pouffée provoque une augmentation du nombre de syllabes.…”

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“…Valli fait le rapprochement entre la répétition d'une configuration manuelle ou d'un mouvement, par exemple, et l'assonance ou l'allitération dans les LO. En outre, il considère que ce phénomène permet de tracer les limites du vers (voir Blondel et Miller (1999) pour une critique de cette proposition). La répétition d'une forme ou d'une localisation joue certes un rôle à la fois dans la fluidité du débit et dans l'articulation d'une structure poétique, mais d'autres éléments peuvent également jouer un rôle dans l'élaboration de cette structure (voir § 3).…”

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La fonction poétique dans les langues des signes

Blondel¹

2000

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poétique dans les langues de signes a été amorcée pendant les années 70. L'objectif de cet article est de présenter l'ensemble des points abordés autour de cette question depuis ces travaux et d'apporter une perspective nouvelle en se concentrant sur l'étude d'un corpus de poésies enfantines en LSF. L'hypothèse dégagée à partir de cette étude consiste à placer le rythme au coeur de la structure poétique et à le considérer comme un élément commun aux poésies des différentes modalités.

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“…The handshape for these three hand configurations share the same handshape and can thus be considered to be phonologically similar, despite differences in orientation. As is the case in spoken language, signed language phonology is used as the basis for poetry (Klima & Bellugi, 1976;Sutton-Spence, 2001) and nursery rhymes (Blondel & Miller, 2001).…”

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Dealing with Digits : Arithmetic, Memory and Phonology in Deaf Signers

Andin¹

2014

Studies From the Swedish Institute for Disability Research

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Deafness has been associated with poor abilities to deal with digits in the context of arithmetic and memory, and language modality-specific differences in the phonological similarity of digits have been shown to influence short-term memory (STM). Therefore, the overall aim of the present thesis was to find out whether language modality-specific differences in phonological processing between sign and speech can explain why deaf signers perform at lower levels than hearing peers when dealing with digits. To explore this aim, the role of phonological processing in digit-based arithmetic and memory tasks was investigated, using both behavioural and neuroimaging methods, in adult deaf signers and hearing non-signers, carefully matched on age, sex, education and nonverbal intelligence. To make task demands as equal as possible for both groups, and to control for material effects, arithmetic, phonological processing, STM and working memory (WM) were all assessed using the same presentation and response mode for both groups. The results suggested that in digit-based STM, phonological similarity of manual numerals causes deaf signers to perform more poorly than hearing non-signers. However, for digit-based WM there was no difference between the groups, possibly due to differences in allocation of resources during WM. This indicates that similar WM for the two groups can be generalized from lexical items to digits. Further, we found that in the present work deaf signers performed better than expected and on a par with hearing peers on all arithmetic tasks, except for multiplication, possibly because the groups studied here were very carefully matched. However, the neural networks recruited for arithmetic and phonology differed between groups. During multiplication tasks, deaf signers showed an increased reliance on cortex of the right parietal lobe complemented by the left inferior frontal gyrus. In contrast, hearing non-signers relied on cortex of the left frontal and parietal lobe during multiplication. This suggests that while hearing non-signers recruit phonology-dependent arithmetic fact retrieval processes for multiplication, deaf signers recruit non-verbal magnitude manipulation processes. For phonology, the hearing non-signers engaged left lateralized frontal and parietal areas within the classical perisylvian language network. In deaf signers, however, phonological processing was limited to cortex of the left occipital lobe, suggesting that sign-based phonological processing does not necessarily activate the classical language network. In conclusion, the findings of the present thesis suggest that language modality-specific differences between sign and speech in different ways can explain why deaf signers perform at lower levels than hearing non-signers on tasks that include dealing with digits.

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Movement and Rhythm in Nursery Rhymes in LSF

Cited by 24 publications

References 9 publications

Embodied Songs: Insights Into the Nature of Cross-Modal Meaning-Making Within Sign Language Informed, Embodied Interpretations of Vocal Music

Embodied Songs: Insights Into the Nature of Cross-Modal Meaning-Making Within Sign Language Informed, Embodied Interpretations of Vocal Music

La fonction poétique dans les langues des signes

Dealing with Digits : Arithmetic, Memory and Phonology in Deaf Signers

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