Pointing to the right side? An ERP study on anaphora resolution in German Sign Language

Wienholz, Anne; Nuhbalaoglu, Derya; Mani, Nivedita; Herrmann, Annika; Onea, Edgar; Steinbach, Markus

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“…The appearance of anaphora is affected by a situation that is considered to provide a positive role. That is why, the use of time adverbial anaphora shows an appropriate designation (Schlenker, 2013;Id et al, 2018). Anaphora of position of the place, either dealing with historic sites or tourism objects, gives a nuance of meaning in a series of texts.…”

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“…Special attention needs to be given to the use of anaphora in descriptive texts. The use of anaphora in texts has been studied by Sequeiros (2004), Matsuo & Duffield (2009), Dekydtspotter et al (2012), Singh & Lakhmani (2014), Steinbach & Onea, (2015), Ashima & Rajni Mohana (2016), Schlenker (2013), Schlenker (2011Schlenker ( , 2017, Romano (2017), and Id et al (2018). Research on cohesive devices (Azis & Juanda, 2017), and spoken discourse markers have also been conducted (Juanda & Azis, 2018).…”

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“Adverbial” Anaphora Resistance in Students’ Descriptive Texts

Azis

Juanda

2020

Humaniora

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The present research aimed to analyze adverbial anaphora resistance in students’ descriptive texts at the Department of Indonesian Language Education and Literature, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar. The problem “How is adverbial anaphora (resistance) was presented in the descriptive texts written by the students? A descriptive qualitative content analysis was employed in this research. Data collection was performed through documentation of the five-semester students’ descriptive texts. The results show that adverbial anaphora resistance in the students’ descriptive texts consists of: (1) anaphora within adverbs of place ( ini “this” and di sana “there” that occupy a different position); (2) anaphora within adverbs of time (tahun “year”, pagi hari “in the morning”, and malam hari “at night”); (2) anaphora within adverbs of purpose (bagi “for” and untuk “to”); (4) anaphora within adverbs of comparison (seperti “like”); (5) anaphora within adverbs of cause (sebab “cause” and karena “because”). Adverbial anaphora is highly associated with the placement of words, the relationship between words and phrases, or interrelationship among sentences. The limited number of adverbial anaphora produced by the students originates from the students’ lack of competence in writing a text.

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“Adverbial” Anaphora Resistance in Students’ Descriptive Texts

Azis

Juanda

2020

Humaniora

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“…More recent studies looking at local utterance contexts of established sign languages and using controlled settings, have identified and tested certain mechanisms (e.g., overt/covert localization, first/second mention preference) influencing signers' interpretive preferences of referentially un(der) specified pronominal signs (STEINBACH & ONEA, 2016;FREDERIKSEN & MAYBERRY, 2017;FREDERIKSEN, 2018;WIENHOLZ ET AL., 2018a, 2018b. However, the exact nature of those mechanisms and whether they are guided by modality-specific conventions or anaphora resolution mechanisms established for spoken languages, have not been analyzed in detail yet.…”

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Resolving pronominal reference in local contexts: a referent selection task

Nuhbalaoglu

2020

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Studies on global and local discourse have shown that sign languages indeed allow for occurrence of referentially unanchored pronominal index (ıx) signs referring to non-present antecedents to appear in ambiguous contexts. In local contexts, resolving the reference of these expressions has been suggested to either depend on a modality-specific anaphora resolution mechanism (localization) or on the next mention bias (first/second mention preference) influencing the salience of the referents. This paper presents a two-alternative forced choice referent selection task investigating the impact of a default localization pattern on the interpretation of referentially unanchored pronominal ix sign, in the local discourse with two competing antecedents. To do that, comparative response data was collected from right- and left-handed signers of German Sign Language (DGS) and Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Results provide evidence for second-mention or object preference for pronominal ix in both languages. In addition, the default localization pattern is identified only in restricted environments (i.e., with reciprocal verbs) to resolve pronominal reference. This modality-specific means is shown to be subject to variation across two unrelated sign languages under investigation. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------RESOLVENDO A REFERÊNCIA PRONOMINAL EM CONTEXTOS LOCAIS: UMA TAREFA DE SELEÇÃO DE REFERENTESEstudos existentes sobre discursos globais e locais mostram que as línguas de sinais claramente permitem que os sinais de apontação (ıx) pronominais referenciais não-ancorados referindo-se a antecedentes ausentes possam ocorrer em contextos ambíguos. Em contextos locais, sugere-se que a resolução da referência dessas expressões dependeriam tanto de um mecanismo de resolução anafórica específico da modalidade visual (localização), bem como de uma tendência de que a próxima menção (uma preferência pela primeira/segunda menção) influenciasse na saliência dos referentes que serão retomados. Este artigo apresenta uma tarefa de seleção de referentes feita obrigatoriamente a partir de duas alternativas que teve por objetivo investigar o impacto do padrão de localização default na interpretação do sinal de apontação pronominal referencial não-ancorado no discurso local, tendo como competidores, dois potenciais antecedentes. Para realizar tal tarefa, comparamos os dados obtidos das respostas de sinalizadores destros e canhotos da Língua de Sinais Alemã (DGS) e da Língua de Sinais Turca (TİD). Os resultados evidenciam que ıx pronominal retoma preferencialmente o segundo referente mencionado ou o objeto em ambas as línguas. Ainda, identificamos que o padrão de localização default só resolve a referência pronominal em ambientes restritos (ex: com verbos recíprocos). Mostramos que este modo de resolver a referência pronominal é específico da modalidade visual e está sujeito à variação paramétrica nas duas línguas de sinais investigadas, que não possuem relação de familiaridade.---Original em inglês.

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“…This may, however, result in quite unnatural stimuli and thus affect the results of the experiment (cf. Hosemann et al, 2018 ; Wienholz et al., 2018 ). The same holds true for other non-manuals such as mouthing or facial expressions.…”

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Handling Sign Language Data: The Impact of Modality

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Steinbach

2019

Front. Psychol.

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Natural languages come in two different modalities. The impact of modality on the grammatical structure and linguistic theory has been discussed at great length in the last 20 years. By contrast, the impact of modality on linguistic data elicitation and collection, corpus studies, and experimental (psycholinguistic) studies is still underinvestigated. In this article, we address specific challenges that arise in judgment data elicitation and experimental studies of sign languages. These challenges are related to the socio-linguistic status of the Deaf community and the larger variability across signers within the same community, to the social status of sign languages, to properties of the visual-gestural modality and its interface with gesture, to methodological aspects of handling sign language data, and to specific linguistic features of sign languages. While some of these challenges also pertain to (some varieties of) spoken languages, other challenges are more modality-specific. The special combination of the challenges discussed in this article seems to be a specific facet empirical research on sign languages is faced with. In addition, we discuss the complementarity of theoretical approaches and experimental studies and show how the interaction of both approaches contributes to a better understanding of sign languages in particular and linguistic structures in general.

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Pointing to the right side? An ERP study on anaphora resolution in German Sign Language

Cited by 12 publications

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“Adverbial” Anaphora Resistance in Students’ Descriptive Texts

“Adverbial” Anaphora Resistance in Students’ Descriptive Texts

Resolving pronominal reference in local contexts: a referent selection task

Handling Sign Language Data: The Impact of Modality

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