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Prosody and movement in American sign language: a task-dynamics approach

Year: 2010

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: 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.

Source: Speech prosody

DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2010-144

Authors: Martha E. Tyrone, Hosung Nam, Elliot Saltzman, Gaurav Mathur, Louis Goldstein

Institutions: Haskins Laboratories, Boston University, Gallaudet University, University of Southern California

Language: English

Topic: Hearing Impairment and Communication

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Institutes of Health

OpenAlex ID: W3080717633