Negation markers in Polish Sign Language (PJM)

Kuder, Anna

doi:10.1075/sll.00055.kud

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“…In other words, it is impossible to categorize Kata Kolok as either a manual dominant or a non-manual dominant system. Growing evidence from studies investigating negation based on corpus data, much like the present study, shows that such naturalistic data may present us with characteristics from both extremes (Oomen and Pfau 2017;Johnston 2018;Kuder 2020).…”

Section: Kata Kolok Negation In Typological Perspectivementioning

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“…First of all, it has been argued that in Russian Sign Language, a manual dominant sign language, the headshake is capable of spreading, thus presenting us with a hybrid system (Rudnev and Kuznetsova 2021). Secondly, Kuder (2020) observes for Polish Sign Language that headshake-only negation is attested, but that the headshake almost never spreads beyond a single sign. Finally, a corpus-based study on Auslan (Johnston 2018) suggests that this sign language employs a headshake in negative contexts, but that the headshake is not (yet) grammaticalized.…”

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Emergence or Grammaticalization? The Case of Negation in Kata Kolok

2022

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Typological comparisons have revealed that signers can use manual elements and/or a non-manual marker to express standard negation, but little is known about how such systematic marking emerges from its gestural counterparts as a new sign language arises. We analyzed 1.73 h of spontaneous language data, featuring six deaf native signers from generations III-V of the sign language isolate Kata Kolok (Bali). These data show that Kata Kolok cannot be classified as a manual dominant or non-manual dominant sign language since both the manual negative sign and a side-to-side headshake are used extensively. Moreover, the intergenerational comparisons indicate a considerable increase in the use of headshake spreading for generation V which is unlikely to have resulted from contact with Indonesian Sign Language varieties. We also attest a specialized negative existential marker, namely, tongue protrusion, which does not appear in co-speech gesture in the surrounding community. We conclude that Kata Kolok is uniquely placed in the typological landscape of sign language negation, and that grammaticalization theory is essential to a deeper understanding of the emergence of grammatical structure from gesture.

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Section: Kata Kolok Negation In Typological Perspectivementioning

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Emergence or Grammaticalization? The Case of Negation in Kata Kolok

2022

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“…is two-fold: they are both found in the lexicon as conventionalised tokens or they can function as purely gestural forms, "[forming] a natural bond […] in interaction" (Harrison 2018, 185). From a corpus-based perspective, Kuder (2022) compares the use of throw-away 3 forms in PJM, DGS and RSL and finds both differences and similarities in terms of frequency and function. However, to the best of our knowledge, all four Away forms together have not yet been thoroughly studied for any of the SLs of the world.…”

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“…All the recordings taken together are approximately 565 hours in length. The elicitation scenario contained approximately 24 tasks that the informants were asked to complete in a face-to-face conversation context (Kuder et al 2022). The elicitation materials used in the PJM Corpus project were designed in close collaboration with the DGS Corpus team (Nishio et al 2010).…”

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“…Palm Up Open Hand gestures have been thoroughly studied in Danish Sign Language (DTS) (Engberg-Pedersen 2002), American Sign Language (ASL) (Conlin, Hagstrom, and Neidle 2003), New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) (McKee and Wallingford 2011), and Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) (van Loon 2012). Small-scale studies of these forms have also been carried out for German Sign Language (DGS) (Volk 2016), Russian Sign Language (RSL) (Bauer 2019) and Polish Sign Language (PJM) (Kuder 2022). Preliminary comparative corpus-based studies in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC) were also undertaken (Gabarró-López 2020), as well as analyses exploring the origin and relations of the gesture in signed and spoken communication (Cooperrider, Abner, and Goldin-Meadow 2018;Lepeut and Shaw 2022).…”

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A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages

Gabarró-López

Kuder

2022

BJL

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This paper presents a study of four recurrent gestures: sweeping away, holding away, brushing away and throwing away. These forms have so far only been studied for spoken languages and are said to form the ‘family of Away gestures’, which is semantically motivated by the effect of actions of removing or keeping away of things. Our corpus-based study aims to investigate these forms in four sign languages: Catalan, French Belgian, German, and Polish. We select and study a data sample that lasts approximately three hours. Our findings reveal the frequency, functions, and the lexicalisation status of the forms across the four studied languages.

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Phonetic differences between affirmative and feedback head nods in German Sign Language (DGS): A pose estimation study

Bauer,

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Schulder

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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This study investigates head nods in natural dyadic German Sign Language (DGS) interaction, with the aim of finding whether head nods serving different functions vary in their phonetic characteristics. Earlier research on spoken and sign language interaction has revealed that head nods vary in the form of the movement. However, most claims about the phonetic properties of head nods have been based on manual annotation without reference to naturalistic text types and the head nods produced by the addressee have been largely ignored. There is a lack of detailed information about the phonetic properties of the addressee’s head nods and their interaction with manual cues in DGS as well as in other sign languages, and the existence of a form-function relationship of head nods remains uncertain. We hypothesize that head nods functioning in the context of affirmation differ from those signaling feedback in their form and the co-occurrence with manual items. To test the hypothesis, we apply OpenPose, a computer vision toolkit, to extract head nod measurements from video recordings and examine head nods in terms of their duration, amplitude and velocity. We describe the basic phonetic properties of head nods in DGS and their interaction with manual items in naturalistic corpus data. Our results show that phonetic properties of affirmative nods differ from those of feedback nods. Feedback nods appear to be on average slower in production and smaller in amplitude than affirmation nods, and they are commonly produced without a co-occurring manual element. We attribute the variations in phonetic properties to the distinct roles these cues fulfill in turn-taking system. This research underlines the importance of non-manual cues in shaping the turn-taking system of sign languages, establishing the links between such research fields as sign language linguistics, conversational analysis, quantitative linguistics and computer vision.

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Negation markers in Polish Sign Language (PJM)

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Emergence or Grammaticalization? The Case of Negation in Kata Kolok

Emergence or Grammaticalization? The Case of Negation in Kata Kolok

A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages

Phonetic differences between affirmative and feedback head nods in German Sign Language (DGS): A pose estimation study

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