sign language

Komponenten von Ikonitzität in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DGS): Phonologische Parameter und semantische Kategorien aus der Perspektive hörender Non-Signer

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 …

Mouthings in the Public German Sign Language (DGS) Corpus

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 …

Project update: Parts of speech and iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS)

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. …

Components of iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS): Hearing non-signer’s perception of phonological and semantic parameters of iconicity

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 …

Isolating the neural correlates of lexical-semantic and syntactic processing in German Sign Language (DGS)

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 …

Morphophonologische Unterschiede in Nomen-Verb-Paaren in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DGS)

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 …

Gestural demonstrations as a possible marker of part of speech in German Sign Language (DGS)

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 …

Nomen-Verb-Paare in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DGS)

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 …

Project update: Parts of speech and iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS)

In this talk we will provide an update about the work carried out as part of our project since its official start earlier this year. We will report some preliminary results from our first empirical studies, discuss new collaborations that already …

What could a collaborative “DGS-LEX” look like?

In this short impulse talk, I will explore what a collaboratively created ‘DGS-LEX’ could look like and how we could get to the point of having such a resource for German Sign Language (DGS)---which is currently still missing---publicly available to …