Doctoral Dissertation Research: Sign language spatial modulation across sociohiohistorical contexts

博士论文研究：跨社会历史背景的手语空间调制

基本信息

批准号：
2020713
负责人：
Diane Brentari
金额：
$ 1.27万
依托单位：
University of Chicago
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2020713&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Sign language

项目摘要

Sign languages (SLs) are situated in the visual-spatial modality, and the body and hands are directly visible during communication. This affords SLs the use of three-dimensional space in fundamental ways. Space is used, or modulated, to refer to locations in an iconic way, allowing signers to place or move referents based on their real world locations or relative spatial configurations. Space is also modulated to track grammatical arguments—i.e., to introduce and maintain discourse referents. How signers weave both person and location referents throughout a discourse has been of great theoretical interest in the sign language linguistics literature. Among proposed frameworks, some reconcile these two uses of space within a single linguistic agreement analysis, while others employ both linguistic (morphemic) and non-linguistic (gestural) analyses rather than an entirely linguistic one.In order to better understand the origins and development of these two referent functions in differing linguistic environments, this research analyzes the distribution of spatial modulations (locative and argument) across three languages–American Sign Language (ASL) a well-established sign language over 300 years old, Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) young sign language of approximately 50 years old that is developing autonomously without outside influence, and Lengua de Señas Costarricense (LESCO) a young sign language that is developing in a situation with strong language contact with ASL. The student researcher will obtain language samples from three sub-groups of NSL and LESCO that represent earlier stages of grammatical development, using the “apparent time” hypothesis, and compare them with equivalent samples from the well-established sign language, ASL. The goal of this work is to tease apart the factors involved in deictic reference tracking in spatial events from its use in argument structure. The proposed research will also serve to further document under-studied sign languages, and to archive the data collected in a permanent, institutionally-maintained repository.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

符号语言（SLS）位于视觉空间方式中，并且在交流过程中直接可见身体和手。这为SL提供了以基本方式使用三维空间。使用空间或调制空间以标志性的方式参考位置，允许签名者根据其现实世界位置或相对空间配置放置或移动指南。还可以调制空间以跟踪语法论证 - 即介绍和维护话语参考。签名者如何编织整个话语中的人和位置参考者在手语语言文献中具有极大的理论兴趣。在提议的框架中，有些在单一的语言协议分析中调和了这两种空间的用途，而另一些人则在语言（形态学）和非语言和非语言（态度）分析中都进行了调和，而不是完全语言的分析，而不是完全语言的分析。为了更好地理解这两个参考函数在不同语言环境中的起源和开发（跨越不同的语言），这三个研究分析（三个研究）的分布（三个研究）的分布（三个研究）的分布（（ASL）一种超过300年历史的手语，尼加拉瓜手语（NSL）的年轻手语大约50年的历史了，它在没有外部影响力的情况下自主发展，而LenguadeSeñasCostarricense（Lesco）是一种年轻的手语，一种在与ASL强烈语言接触的情况下正在发展的年轻手语。学生研究人员将使用“明显的时间”假设从NSL和LESCO的三个子组中获取语言样本，这些语言样本代表了语法发展的早期阶段，并将其与已成熟的手语ASL的等效样本进行比较。这项工作的目的是教授空间事件中的Deictic参考跟踪涉及的因素。根据其在参数结构中的使用。拟议的研究还将有助于进一步记录研究不足的标志语言，并归档在永久性，机构维护的存储库中收集的数据。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估来获得的支持。