Sign languages: Contribution to neurolinguistics from cross-modal research

Malaia, Evie; Wilbur, Ronnie Β.

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2010.03.014

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“…Recent cross-linguistic studies in the function of motion across sign languages make it clear that there is much to the grammars of sign languages that have not yet been fully explored (Malaia & Wilbur, 2010). The results of quantitative analysis of articulator motion complexity are convergent with the evidence that the head motion in Finnish and Japanese sign languages is linguistically meaningful in ways that are much more intricate than generally assumed, along with the extensive evidence for both redundancy and independence of the NDH with respect to DH motion.…”

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Information Transfer Capacity of Articulators in American Sign Language

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The ability to convey information is a fundamental property of communicative signals. For sign languages, which are overtly produced with multiple, completely visible articulators, the question arises as to how the various channels co-ordinate and interact with each other. We analyze motion capture data of American Sign Language (ASL) narratives, and show that the capacity of information throughput, mathematically defined, is highest on the dominant hand (DH). We further demonstrate that information transfer capacity is also significant for the non-dominant hand (NDH), and the head channel too, as compared to control channels (ankles). We discuss both redundancy and independence in articulator motion in sign language, and argue that the NDH and the head articulators contribute to the overall information transfer capacity, indicating that they are neither completely redundant to, nor completely independent of, the DH.

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Information Transfer Capacity of Articulators in American Sign Language

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“…Since the 80s, the studies on the sign languages of Deaf people have achieved great linguistic and thematic diversity. Not only has the number of described sign languages greatly expanded, but their study has been ap-proached from different points of view and interests, including language development and education (Marschark & Clark, 1993;Marschark & Spencer, 2003;Marschark, Tang & Knoors, 2014), sociolinguistics (Lucas, 2001;Schembri & Lucas, 2015) and neurolinguistics (Corina, 1998;Malaia & Wilbur, 2010).…”

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