Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions

Recent research into signed languages indicates that signs may share some properties with gesture, especially in the use of space in classifier constructions. A prediction of this proposal is that there will be similarities in the representation of motion events by sign-na ve gesturers and by native signers of unrelated signed languages

CLASSIFIER CONSTRUCTIONS AND MORPHOLOGY IN TWO SIGN LANGUAGES 71 tive hand articulates the movement and (c) the specification of the passive handshape is restricted to be one of a small set: A,S,B,G,C,O.18 (pp. 34–35) The Dominance Condition and Symmetry Condition are inviolable in words of the lexicon

FREQUENCY OF CLASSIFIER CONSTRUCTIONS IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE Lauren Lenore Williford M.A. University of Pittsburgh, 2008 ABSTRACT Classifiers in spoken languages are generally viewed as overt morphemes within a noun phrase that serve to classify referents according to real or imputed characteristics

Talk:Classifier constructions in sign languages ... Classifier handshapes would warrant their own article. Incorporating it as it is now would be problematic for two reasons. First of all there practically no sources and secondly they are already described in the article as whole entity classifiers. It would put undue weight on them if they

Oct 20, 2014 For future work it could be valuable to follow learners from their first sign language classes until they become advanced signers, in order to examine the time course of classifier acquisition from the very initial comprehension and production of such constructions to their mastery, and in order to examine the amount and type of linguistic

Review of Emmorey ((2003)): Perspectives on classifier constructions in sign languages & Cogill-Koez ((2000)): Sign Language and Linguistics. Gesture 4:2 pp. 221 ff. Tkachman, Oksana & Wendy Sandler

The current study focuses on the acquisition of classifier constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) by a group of Deaf children of hearing parents, aided or implanted. These children have been mainstreamed together since kindergarten; but their learning environment supports dual language input in Cantonese and HKSL on a daily basis

5. The acquisition of classifiers in sign languages 6. Classifiers in spoken and sign languages: a comparison 7. Conclusion 8. Literature Abstract Classifiers (currently also called ‘depicting handshapes’), are observed in almost all sign languages studied to date and form a well-researched topic in sign language linguistics

There was a significant main effect between languages for the semantic mismatch scores between verb and classifier, F(5, 111) = 9.301, p .001, ηp2 = .3. Pairwise comparisons comparing individual languages found that North Ambrym had significantly more semantic mismatches between the verb and classifier than all other languages (largest p

A [15O]water PET experiment was conducted to in-vestigate the neural regions engaged in processing constructions unique to signed languages: classifier predicates in which the position of the hands in sign-ing space schematically represents spatial relations among objects

1.2.2 An IPA for sign languages? 3 1.3 Classifier constructions 4 1.3.1 Terms used in this study 4 1.4 Conclusion 5 Chapter 2: Literature Review 6 2.1 Sign linguistic research divergence 6 2.1.1 Adopted spoken language frameworks 6 2.1.2 An IPA for sign language 9

May 08, 2012 Classifiers in spoken languages are generally viewed as overt morphemes within a noun phrase that serve to classify referents according to real or imputed characteristics. A 'classifier language' is so designated because it has classifier constructions, which are believed to comprise a morphosyntactic subsystem in these languages. Controversy

Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions

For one thing, in sign languages, there are no attested constructions that are purely depictive, contrary to what might be expected if sign languages were dual-representation languages: what we find instead, even in instances of gradient iconicity, is a

What you see isn’t always what you get: simultaneous classifier constructions in sign language Connie de Vos [email protected] University of Central Lancashire, Preston (UK) Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen In describing Figure-Ground constructions, languages deploy coordinate systems that calculate the

classifier constructions and morphology in two sign languages 79 combine with movement and location formatives for form classifier constructions. The tracing type may

Oct 23, 2013 Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions

Recent research into signed languages indicates that signs may share some properties with gesture, especially in the use of space in classifier constructions. A prediction of this proposal is that there will be similarities in the representation of motion events by sign-na ve gesturers and by native signers of unrelated signed languages

Oct 20, 2014 There has long been interest in why languages are shaped the way they are, and in the relationship between sign language and gesture. In sign languages, entity classifiers are handshapes that encode how objects move, how they are located relative to one another, and how multiple objects of the same type are distributed in space