The notion of focus and its relation to contrast in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

Navarrete-González, Alexandra

doi:10.34630/sensos-e.v6i1.2565

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“…Up to now few studies have directly addressed the description of Information Structure (IS) notions in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) (Navarrete-González 2016, 2019. Some studies have described some markers of contrast that have been found while describing other topics and/or structures that may mark or involve contrast, like the use of signing space (Barberà 2007(Barberà , 2015 and coordinated structures (Zorzi 2018).…”

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“…As shown in section 2.1.3, I separate the notions of focus and contrast as independent Information Structure (IS) categories since LSC provides evidence for this distinction. This chapter is partially based on the research done in Navarrete-González (2016, 2019. Section 3.2 gives an overview of the different ways focus may be realized in a language.…”

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“…left-right body leans (bl) and head tilts (ht), and the use of the opposite sides of signing space (cf Barberà 2015, Navarrete-González 2016, 2019, 2021, Zorzi 2018…”

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This study aims to explore the occurrence of mouthings on information focus and contrastive focus in Italian Sign Language, showing that mouthings may be used as a focus marking strategy. Two elicitation tasks allowed us to compare the length of mouthings on focalised and non-focalised elements in the production of two Deaf native signers. Moreover, this measure was observed depending on the focus type and the syntactic role of the focalised DP. By adopting a cross-modal theoretical approach, this work provides evidence of a similar pragmatic function performed by coverbal gestures and mouthings in spoken and sign languages, respectively.

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The notion of focus and its relation to contrast in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

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Focus and contrast in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Form and interpretation

Focus and contrast in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Form and interpretation

Prosodic marking of contrast in LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language)

Le labializzazioni su focus informativi e contrastivi nella LIS Una marca pragmatica in comparazione con i gesti coverbali

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