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Spijker, Laura; Oomen, Marloes – Sign Language Studies, 2023
We present one of the first detailed studies on hesitation marking in a sign language. Based on the analysis of a set of monologues and dialogues from the "Corpus NGT" (Crasborn and Zwitserlood 2008; Crasborn, Zwitserlood, and Ros 2008), we describe the form and position of manual and nonmanual markers of hesitation in Sign Language of…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Cues, Computational Linguistics, Eye Movements
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Hannah Lutzenberger; Lierin de Wael; Rehana Omardeen; Mark Dingemanse – Sign Language Studies, 2024
Minimal expressions are at the heart of interaction: Interjections like "Huh?" and "Mhm" keep conversations flowing by establishing and reinforcing intersubjectivity among interlocutors. Crosslinguistic research has identified that similar interactional pressures can yield structurally similar words (e.g., to initiate repair…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Sign Language, English, Expressive Language
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Leala Holcomb – Sign Language Studies, 2024
This investigation aimed to explore the feasibility of implementing the strategic and interactive signing instruction (SISI) framework and its potential to enhance the signed composition skills of four deaf students in a first/second-grade classroom. SISI was adapted from the existing strategic and interactive writing instruction (SIWI) framework…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Deafness, Teaching Methods, Grade 1
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Ghari, Zohreh – Sign Language Studies, 2017
In 1924 Jabbar Baghcheban created a manual system that employed the phonetic characteristics of spoken Persian and Perso-Arabic orthography for use in the education of deaf students (Ibrahimi 2007). This article is a first exploration of variation and change in this system as it has evolved into the Iranian manual alphabet. Data on the…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Phonetics, Semitic Languages, Indo European Languages
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Ormel, Ellen; Crasborn, Onno – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This article contains a literature review of evidence of large prosodic domains that correspond to syntactic units such as a clause or a sentence. In particular, different phonetic nonmanual cues that may relate to clause or sentence boundaries are discussed in detail. On the basis of various ideas and views in the literature, we also describe two…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Sentences, Cues, Sign Language
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Quinto-Pozos, David; Reynolds, Wanette – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This study takes advantage of a novel methodology--the use of a single culturally-meaningful text written in English and presented to different audiences in ASL--to examine the ways in which Deaf native signers utilize contextualization strategies in order to match the perceived linguistic and informational needs of an audience. We demonstrate,…
Descriptors: Cues, Interpersonal Communication, Deafness, Audiences