Grammatical Regularities in Sign Language and Homesign

手语和手语的语法规律

• 批准号: 0547554
• 负责人: Diane Brentari
• 金额: $ 62.5万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0547554&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Grammatical; Regularities; Sign; Language; Homesign

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Diane Brentari will conduct five years of linguistic research on the handshapes used in well-established sign languages and in the invented systems used by deaf individuals who have not been exposed to a signed or spoken languages, called 'homesign' systems. Three different deaf populations that use a visual-gestural system as their primary means of communication will be studied: native signers of Italian Sign Language (adults and children); Italian homesigning children, and Nicaraguan homesigners(adults and children). The populations are all from environments where gesture is also a strong part of the language environment. The data will come from descriptions of events of motion and location.The scientific questions addressed by this project are the following. First, how do grammatical properties in syntax, phonology, and morphology emerge in the case of children acquiring a language from their parents vs. when children are inventing their own systems of gestures without language input from their families? Second, what aspects of grammar are more or less robust in the case of acquisition case vs. the case of invention and at what age? Third, do homesign systems become more sophisticated when they are used as the primary means of communication over the course of a lifetime, as is the case in homesigning adults in Nicaragua? Finally, this research will contribute to our understanding of the evolution of language because homesigners are inventing communication anew in a way that is not possible to observe in the realm of spoken languages; this particlar moment of spoken language history was not recorded in a way that it can be studied with contemporary means. In addition to its scientific merit, this project will recruit native-signing Deaf undergraduate and graduate students to help analyze data, and so provide an opportunity for these students to engage in first-hand scientific research on sign languages.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，黛安·布伦塔里博士将对成熟手语中使用的手形以及未接触过手语或口语的聋人使用的发明系统进行为期五年的语言学研究，称为“手语”。 homesign'系统。将研究使用视觉手势系统作为主要交流方式的三种不同的聋哑人群：意大利手语的母语手语者（成人和儿童）；意大利签名儿童和尼加拉瓜签名者（成人和儿童）。这些人群都来自手势也是语言环境重要组成部分的环境。 数据将来自运动和位置事件的描述。该项目解决的科学问题如下。 首先，当孩子从父母那里习得语言时，与孩子在没有家庭语言输入的情况下发明自己的手势系统时相比，句法、音系和词法等语法特性是如何出现的？其次，语法的哪些方面在习得案例与发明案例中或多或少是稳健的，以及在什么年龄？ 第三，当手语系统被用作一生中的主要沟通手段时，它们是否会变得更加复杂，就像尼加拉瓜的成年人手语的情况一样？ 最后，这项研究将有助于我们理解语言的演变，因为手语者正在以一种在口语领域无法观察到的方式重新发明交流方式；口语历史的这一特殊时刻并没有以可以用当代手段研究的方式记录下来。 除了其科学价值外，该项目还将招募母语手语聋人本科生和研究生来帮助分析数据，从而为这些学生提供参与手语第一手科学研究的机会。