The Development of Childhood Multilingualism in Languages of Different Modalities

Kanto, Laura

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“…Balanced bilingualism between minority and majority languages is rare (Unsworth, 2015), and one language is always more commonly used and favored. The varying input, modalities, and usage contexts between spoken Finnish (majority) and FinSL (minority) may impact sign processing skills differently in deaf and hearing signers (For a review about acquisition in multilingualism, see Kanto, 2022). Further, empirical evidence indicates that hearing signers experience a strong cross-linguistic and cross-modal influence between speech and signing, which manifests in both online processing and production tasks (Manhardt et al, 2021).…”

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“…Furthermore, as multimodal bilingual/multilingual individuals, deaf and hearing native signers might differ in the dominance and/or environments in which signed and spoken languages are used. SL might be dominant and more widely used by deaf signers, while the opposite might occur for hearing signers (Emmorey et al, 2008;Kanto, 2022). Therefore, studying both groups (deaf and hearing native signers) is theoretically significant due to the potential to uncover distinctions linked to brain plasticity or language dominance, regardless of the age of acquisition.…”

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Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension.

Hernández Barros,

Puupponen,

Keränen

et al. 2023

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Sign languages (SLs) are expressed through different bodily actions, ranging from re-enactment of physical events (constructed action, CA) to sequences of lexical signs with internal structure (plain telling, PT). Despite the prevalence of CA in signed interactions and its significance for SL comprehension, its neural dynamics remain unexplored. We examined the processing of different types of CA (subtle, reduced, and overt) and PT in 35 adult deaf or hearing native signers. The electroencephalographic-based processing of signed sentences with incongruent last signs was recorded. Attenuated N300 and early N400 were observed for CA in deaf but not in hearing signers. No differences were found between sentences with CA types in all signers, suggesting a continuum from PT to overt CA. Deaf signers focused more on body movements; hearing signers on faces. We conclude that CA is processed less effortlessly than PT, arguably because of its strong focus on bodily actions.

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Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension.

Hernández Barros,

Puupponen,

Keränen

et al. 2023

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Opening up Corpus FinSL: enriching corpus analysis with linguistic ethnography in a study of constructed action

Puupponen,

Hodge,

Anible

et al. 2024

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Corpus methods are now established within the field of signed language linguistics. Empirical investigations of signed language corpora have challenged many early assumptions about the nature of deaf community signed languages, while making us more aware of the limitations of traditional corpus documentation methods. One limitation relates to insufficient documentation of ethnographic information that is often necessary for accurately understanding and interpreting corpus data. Linguistic ethnography offers unique possibilities for addressing this limitation. This article outlines a novel interview method developed to enrich the original Corpus of Finnish Sign Language (Corpus FinSL) with additional ethnographic information eight years after it was first documented and archived with standard IMDI corpus metadata. We interviewed 22 Corpus FinSL signers about their family and social networks, as well as their lifelong language, geographical, educational, and employment trajectories. Here we describe how this information illuminates the linguistic analysis and interpretation of constructed action – an enactment-based way to express meaning – in Corpus FinSL data. Our results reveal constructed action in FinSL discourse is influenced by factors like signer’s educational background and age, but not exclusively by family networks or use of other sign languages. The interview materials demonstrate diversity and change in the communicative ecologies of FinSL, which is discussed in relation to the use of constructed action in FinSL. We argue that this kind of approach enables signed language corpus linguistics to “open up” more to signers’ lived experiences, while still “tying down” empirical descriptions of FinSL. A major benefit is the enrichment of both machine-readable annotations and metadata, while supporting deeper engagement between deaf signing communities and signed language corpus projects.

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The Development of Childhood Multilingualism in Languages of Different Modalities

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Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension.

Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension.

Opening up Corpus FinSL: enriching corpus analysis with linguistic ethnography in a study of constructed action

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