Towards a Classification of Weak Hand Holds
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 spe... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Open Linguistics, Vol 2, Iss 1 (2016) |
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De Gruyter
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Schlagwörter: | Russian Sign Language / Sign Language of the Netherlands / simultaneity / buoys / weak hand holds / non-dominant hand spreading / Philology. Linguistics / P1-1091 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26804353 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0010 |