TY - GEN
T1 - Prosody and movement in American sign language
T2 - 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody: Every Language, Every Style, SP 2010
AU - Tyrone, Martha E.
AU - Nam, Hosung
AU - Saltzman, Elliot
AU - Mathur, Gaurav
AU - Goldstein, Louis
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is funded by National Institutes grant DC009466.
Funding Information:
This research is funded by National Institutes of Health grant DC009466.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2010 Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This study examines prosody in American Sign Language using the theoretical framework of articulatory phonology, which proposes that the basic units of speech are articulatory gestures. We hypothesize that articulatory gestures are also the structural primitives of sign, and we are investigating what the gestures are and how they are timed. Kinematic data are collected as ASL users produce target signs with movements toward or away from the body, in phrase-initial, medial, or final position. Preliminary data suggest that signs are lengthened at phrase boundaries in a manner consistent with the predictions of a task-dynamic model of prosodically induced slowing.
AB - This study examines prosody in American Sign Language using the theoretical framework of articulatory phonology, which proposes that the basic units of speech are articulatory gestures. We hypothesize that articulatory gestures are also the structural primitives of sign, and we are investigating what the gestures are and how they are timed. Kinematic data are collected as ASL users produce target signs with movements toward or away from the body, in phrase-initial, medial, or final position. Preliminary data suggest that signs are lengthened at phrase boundaries in a manner consistent with the predictions of a task-dynamic model of prosodically induced slowing.
KW - ASL
KW - Articulatory phonology
KW - Signed language
KW - Task dynamics
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84948826307
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
BT - 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2010
PB - International Speech Communications Association
Y2 - 10 May 2010 through 14 May 2010
ER -