Background. Many of the world’s spoken and sign languages mark the difference between the two major lexical categories noun and verb (Abner et al., 2019). In the case of German Sign Language (DGS), different morphophonological properties for nouns …
The human brain has the capacity to automatically compute the grammatical relations of words in sentences, be they spoken or written. This species-specific ability for syntax lies at the core of our capacity for language and is primarily subserved by …
Die Studie untersucht die Iconizität in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DSG) aus kompositioneller Perspektive, indem sie die phonologischen und semantischen Parameter von 50 lexikalischen Gebärden analysiert. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass …
In this talk we provide an update about our ongoing short-term collaboration supported through ViCom in which we investigate mouthings in the public German Sign Language (DGS) Corpus. We report preliminary results from our first empirical work and …
In this talk we provide an update about the work carried out as part of our project since its official start earlier this year. We will report results from our first empirical studies and sketch our next steps and ideas for upcoming experiments. …
Iconicity is defined as a perceived resemblance between aspects of a linguistic form and aspects of its associated meaning (Perniss et al. 2010; Perniss and Vigliocco 2014; Dingemanse 2019). Transparency describes a degree of this resemblance, in …
The human capacity for language is rooted in our ability to combine lexical items into hierarchically structured phrases and sentences, a cognitive process primarily subserved by a left-hemispheric network consisting of posterior inferior frontal …
In der modernen Linguistik herrscht weitestgehend Einigkeit darüber, dass alle Sprachen der Welt zumindest über Kategorien Anlog zu Nomen und Verben verfügen. Inwiefern diese beiden Kategorien in unterschiedlichen Sprachen morphologisch …
The iconic potential of the visuo-spatial modality allows for a direct mapping between different aspects of meaning and the morphophonological form of a signed utterance (Perniss et al., 2010; Schlenker 2018). Yet, in contrast to speech and co-speech …
Sentences are not just mere strings of words or signs but manifest a complex internal structure. Linguistic research has demonstrated that sign languages and spoken languages both exhibit hierarchical constituent structure which determines how …