Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Multi-Modal Study of Gesture in a Spatial Language

博士论文研究：空间语言中手势的多模态研究

• 批准号: 2025315
• 负责人: Gary Holton
• 金额: $ 1.88万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 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 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2025315&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Multi; Modal

Spatial orientation is arguably one of the fundamental tasks of human language, and speakers use an array of strategies to situate objects, give directions, and categorize landscape features. The languages spoken in regions near large oceans are particularly well-known for their reliance on the land-sea opposition for spatial orientation, and this distinction is reflected in vocabulary. Thus, one would locate a house as ‘landward’ or ‘seaward,' rather than ‘left’ or ‘right,’ or ‘north’ or ‘south.’ Crucially, spatial vocabulary is almost always accompanied by spatial gestures, such as pointing with hands, arms, head, or facial features. Often, these gestures are not just supplemental but play a critical role in conveying spatial meaning. Yet, most research on spatial language has focused solely on the speech stream rather than the visual component. Drawing on cutting-edge methodology, this study uses video recordings to analyze spatial language and gesture in a language of the Austronesian language family. The study will provide novel data on a little-studied yet linguistically diverse area of the language family. Moreover, the research will provide critical new documentation of a minority language currently undergoing rapid language loss. Working with local collaborators, the doctoral student will collect high-quality audio and video recordings of natural speech as part of a community-driven documentation effort. These recordings will be supplemented by unpublished legacy archival data. Recordings will be transcribed, translated and annotated for spatial features, and correlations between spoken and gestural features will be noted. All collected data will be publicly archived. The analysis of language, space, and gesture in this language will broaden the scientific understanding of the nature of space in language. Further, gesture has hardly been studied and its relation to spatial communication remains poorly understood. Because the use of gesture varies areally, it is important to diversify the regions where gesture has been documented in order to broaden understanding of the multitudinous ways that gesture can facilitate communication. To do this, the study will employ novel methodologies that incorporate gesture as an essential part of linguistic analysis.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.

空间定位是有争议的人类语言的基本任务之一，说话者使用一系列策略来定位物体、给出方向并对景观特征进行分类，在大洋附近地区使用的语言以其依赖性而闻名。陆地与海洋在空间方向上的对立，这种区别反映在词汇中，因此，人们会将房屋定位为“向陆地”或“向海”，而不是“向左”或“向右”或“向北”或“向北”。 ” 至关重要的是，在空间上。词汇几乎总是伴随着空间手势，例如用手、手臂、头部或面部特征进行指向，这些手势通常不仅是补充性的，而且在传达空间意义方面发挥着关键作用。这项研究仅基于语音流而不是视觉成分，利用视频记录来分析南岛语系语言的空间语言和手势。该研究将为一种尚未被研究的语言提供新颖的数据。语言的语言多样性区域此外，该研究还将与当地合作者合作，为目前正在快速丧失语言的少数民族语言提供重要的新记录，作为社区驱动的记录工作的一部分，收集自然语音的高质量音频和视频记录。这些录音将由未发表的遗留档案数据进行转录、翻译和注释，并且将记录所有收集到的语言、空间和手势特征之间的相关性。这种语言中的手势将拓宽对语言空间本质的科学理解。此外，手势与空间交流的关系仍然知之甚少，因为手势的使用因地区而异，因此使使用手势的区域多样化非常重要。手势已被记录下来，以扩大对手势促进交流的多种方式的理解。为此，该研究将采用新颖的方法，将手势作为语言分析的重要组成部分。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为。值得通过使用评估来支持基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

The place of space in Oceanic Linguistics

空间在海洋语言学中的地位

• DOI: 10.1353/ol.2021.0027
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Oceanic Linguistics
• 影响因子: 0.9
• 作者: Pappas, Leah;Mawyer, Alexander
• 通讯作者: Mawyer, Alexander

A quantitative approach to sociotopography in Austronesian languages

南岛语社会地形学的定量方法

• DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2020-0044
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Linguistics Vanguard
• 影响因子: 1.1
• 作者: Pappas, Leah;Holton, Gary
• 通讯作者: Holton, Gary

Training communities in documentation and technology: The Language Documentation Training Center model

文档和技术培训社区：语言文档培训中心模型

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Language documentation and conservation
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Sou, Jennifer;Pappas, Leah;Khairunnisa;Holton, Gary
• 通讯作者: Holton, Gary