Expression of time in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)

Sinte, Aurélie

doi:10.1515/9781614511472.205

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“…Lastly, in addition to six timelines, a "Plan" is used for calendar units as a schedule of a week or a year. Sinte's (2013)…”

Section: How Time Is Encoded In Sign Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I do not have enough support even to speculate a possible explanation for this, which will be also left for future studies. frequently observed one across sign languages is referred to as Line 1 in Sinte's (2013) Comparing two time adverbials, in the articulation of ESKİDEN 'in the past' (15a) eyebrow frowning gets intensified and during the squint, the signer's eyes are almost closed in the distant past (15b). On the other hand, in (16a) eyebrows are raised more and eyes are wide open in the distant future (16b).…”

Section: Timelines In Ti̇dmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Researchers also highlight that the length of path movement correlates with the distance between the times of the events (Cabeza Pereiro & Fernandez Soneira, 2004;Cogen, 1977;Pfau et al, 2013;Sinte, 2013). Regarding this, Wilbur (2008) names this extension as extra, which has meaning of 'extra, more of'.…”

Section: Timelines In Ti̇dmentioning

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“…Sign languages are considered as tenseless languages, which means that tense inflection on the verb has not been observed for most of them (Binnick, 1991;Cogen, 1977;Meir & Sandler, 2008;Pfau, Steinbach, & Woll, 2013;Sinte, 2013). For TİD, Gökgöz (2009) proposed that head nod accompanying the verb can convey tense; however, other studies reported that TİD does not have a verbal inflection for tense (Arık, 2012;Dikyuva et al, 2016).…”

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“…The placement of time adverbials in the signing space yields timelines, which is another strategy to convey time (Cabeza Pereiro & Fernandez Soneira, 2004;Meir & Sandler, 2008;Le Guen, 2012;Pfau et al, 2013;Sinte, 2013). Sinte (2013) describes how different timelines are realized in various sign languages. She concludes with six different timelines and a plan in spatial mapping observed in sign languages (pp.…”

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Strategies to Express Time in a Tenseless Language: Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

Karabüklü

2018

Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi

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The studies on how time is expressed in TİD have different results: Gökgöz (2009) proposes that head nod is a tense morpheme while Arık (2012) and Dikyuva et al. (2015) claim that TİD is a morphologically tenseless language. This study shows that TİD is a morphologically tenseless language based on the occurrence of head nod with different verb types. It is also proposed that tense of a sentence is expressed via time adverbials and shown which syntactic positions time adverbials occur in. Lastly, timelines in TİD, which are only reported on in a few studies, are described based on the placement of time adverbials in the signing space. It is also shown that different time spans require different timelines to be used.

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“…Lastly, in addition to six timelines, a "Plan" is used for calendar units as a schedule of a week or a year. Sinte's (2013)…”

Section: How Time Is Encoded In Sign Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Timelines In Ti̇dmentioning

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Section: Timelines In Ti̇dmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Strategies to Express Time in a Tenseless Language: Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

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2018

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“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.” A functional description of time expressions through fingers based on Chinese Sign Language naturalistic data

Lin

2022

Lang. cogn.

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This paper investigates the relationship between fingers and time representations in naturalistic Chinese Sign Language (CSL). Based on a CSL Corpus (Shanghai Variant, 2016–), we offer a thorough description of finger configurations for time expressions from 63 deaf signers, including three main types: digital, numeral incorporation, and points-to-fingers. The former two were further divided into vertical and horizontal fingers according to the orientation of fingertips. The results showed that there were interconnections between finger representations, numbers, ordering, and time in CSL. Vertical fingers were mainly used to quantify time units, whereas horizontal fingers were mostly used for sequencing or ordering events, and their forms could be influenced by Chinese number characters and the vertical writing direction. Furthermore, the use of points-to-fingers (e.g., pointing to the thumb, index, or little finger) formed temporal connectives in CSL and could be patterned to put a conversation in order. Additionally, CSL adopted similar linguistic forms in sequential time and adverbs of reason (e.g., cause and effect: events that happened earlier and events that happen later). Such a cause-and-effect relationship was a special type of temporal sequence. In conclusion, fingers are essential for time representation in CSL and their forms are biologically and culturally shaped.

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Contrasting the semantic typology biases of Deaf and hearing nonsigners in their conceptualization of time and space

Macedo,

Yerro,

Vivas

et al. 2023

Applied Psycholinguistics

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The mental lexicon offers a window into the configuration of conceptual domains such as space and time, which has been labeled as concrete the former and abstract the latter in the current embodiment approach to cognition. Space has a phonological and semantic value in sign languages, but not in spoken languages. Additionally, the representation of time by spatial means is robust in oral and sign languages. This research asks if Deaf signers and hearing nonsigners have the same conceptual organization of those domains. In their respective languages, sixty-two participants made a repeated free word association task. These results showed that the studied populations have a little overlap in the associates evocated for each clue. The analysis of the preferences of the semantic relations of the pairs clue-associate showed a greater tendency of the Deaf signers to establish thematic relations. In contrast, the hearing participants indicated a bias toward taxonomic relations. The results suggest that the abstractness or concreteness of concepts may be modulated by factors associated with linguistic modalities. However, in this compared free association norms factors related to the language deprivation of Deaf, the asymmetries in the cross-modal language contact and cross-modal borrowing were not exhaustively controlled.

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Expression of time in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)

Cited by 9 publications

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Strategies to Express Time in a Tenseless Language: Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

Strategies to Express Time in a Tenseless Language: Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.” A functional description of time expressions through fingers based on Chinese Sign Language naturalistic data

Contrasting the semantic typology biases of Deaf and hearing nonsigners in their conceptualization of time and space

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