Prosody in a communication system developed without a language model

Sign Language and Linguistics (Online)

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 181-212

  Applebaum, Lauren ^a   Coppola, Marie ^b   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Gesture; Homesign; Intonational phrase; Prosody; Sign language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918778971     PISSN: 13879316     EISSN: 1569996X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sll.17.2.02app     Document Type: Article

References (77)

1. Alibali, Martha W., Sotaro Kita & Amanda J. Young. 2000. Gesture and the process of speech production: We think, therefore we gesture. Language and Cognitive Processes 15(6). 593-613. DOI: 10.1080/016909600750040571
2. Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, Carol Padden & Wendy Sandler. 2008. The roots of linguistic organization in a new language. Interaction Studies 9(1). 133-153. DOI: 10.1075/is.9.1.10aro
3. Baker, Charlotte & Carol Padden. 1978. Focusing on the non-manual components of American Sign Language. In Patricia Siple (ed.), Understanding language through sign language research, 27-58. New York, NY: Academic Press.
4. Balog, Heather L. & Diane Brentari. 2008. The relationship between early gestures and intonation. First Language 28(2). 141-163. DOI: 10.1177/0142723708088722
5. Beckman, Mary. E. & Janet B. Pierrehumbert. 1986. Intonational structure in Japanese and English. Phonology Yearbook 3. 255-309. DOI: 10.1017/S095267570000066X
6. Benitez-Quiroz, C. Fabian, Kadir Gökgöz, Ronnie B. Wilbur & Aleix M. Martinez. 2014. Discriminant features and temporal structure of nonmanuals in American Sign Language. PLoS ONE 9(2): E86268. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0086268.
7. Bolinger, Dwight. 1983. Intonation and gesture. American Speech 58(2). 156-174. DOI: 10.2307/455326
8. Brentari, Diane, Marie Coppola, Laura Mazzoni & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 2012. When does a system become phonological? Handshape production in gesturers, signers, and homesigners. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 30(1). 1-31. DOI: 10.1007/s11049-011-9145-1
9. Brentari, Diane & Laurinda Crossley. 2002. Prosody on the hands and face: Evidence from American Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics 5(2). 105-130. DOI: 10.1075/sll.5.2.03bre
10. Brentari, Diane, Carolina González, Amanda Seidl & Ronnie Wilbur. 2011. Sensitivity to visual prosodic cues in signers and nonsigners. Language and Speech 54(1). 49-72. DOI: 10.1177/0023830910388011
11. Butcher, Cynthia, Carolyn Mylander & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 1991. Displaced communication in a self styled gesture system: Pointing at the nonpresent. Cognitive Development 6(3). 315-342. DOI: 10.1016/0885-2014(91)90042-C
12. Conrad, Reuben. 1977. Lip-reading by deaf and hearing children. British Journal of Educational Psychology 47. 60-65. DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1977.tb03001.x
13. Conrad, Reuben. 1979. The deaf child. London: Harper & Row.
14. Coppola, Marie & Elissa L. Newport. 2005. Grammatical Subjects in home sign: Abstract linguistic structure in adult primary gesture systems without linguistic input. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102(52), 19249-19253. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0509306102
15. Coppola, Marie & Ann Senghas. 2010. Deixis in an emerging sign language. In D. Brentari (ed.), Sign languages: A Cambridge language survey, 543-569. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511712203.025
16. Cutler, Anne, Delphine Dahan & Wilma van Donselaar. 1997. Prosody in the comprehension of spoken language: A literature review. Language and Speech 40(2). 141-201.
17. Dachkovsky, Svetlana, Christina Healy & Wendy Sandler. 2013. Visual intonation in two sign languages. Phonology 30(2). 211-252. DOI: 10.1017/S0952675713000122
18. Dachkovsky, Svetlana & Wendy Sandler. 2009. Visual intonation in the prosody of a sign language. Language and Speech 52(2-3). 287-314. DOI: 10.1177/0023830909103175
19. Farwell, Roberta M. 1976. Speech reading: A research review. American Annals of the Deaf 121. 19-30.
20. Feldman, Heidi, Susan Goldin-Meadow & Lila Gleitman. 1978. Beyond Herodotus: The creation of language by linguistically deprived deaf children. In Andrew Lock (ed.), Action, gesture and symbol: The emergence of language, 351-414. New York, NY: Academic Press.
21. Fenlon, Jordan, Tanya Denmark, Ruth Campbell & Bencie Woll. 2007. Seeing sentence boundaries. Sign Language & Linguistics 10(2). 177-200. DOI: 10.1075/sll.10.2.06fen
22. Franklin, Amy, Anastasia Giannakidou & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 2011. Negation, questions, and structure building in a homesign system. Cognition 118. 398-416. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.08.017
23. Graf, Hans Peter, Eric Cosatto, Volker Strom & Fu Jie Huang. 2002. Visual prosody: Facial movement accompanying speech. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE InternationalConference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. 381-386.
24. Goldin-Meadow, Susan. 1979. Structure in a manual communication system developed without a conventional language model: Language without a helping hand. In Haiganoosh Whitaker & Harry Whitaker (eds.), Studies in neurolinguistics, Vol. 4, 125-209. New York: Academic Press. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-746304-9.50010-0
25. Goldin-Meadow, Susan. 1982. The resilience of recursion: A study of a communication system developed without a conventional language model. In Eric Wanner & Lila R. Gleitman (eds.), Language acquisition: The state of the art, 51-77. New York: Cambridge University Press.
26. Goldin-Meadow, Susan. 1985. Language development under atypical learning conditions: Replication and implications of a study of deaf children of hearing parents. In Keith E. Nelson (ed.), Children's language, Vol. 5, 197-245. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
27. Goldin-Meadow, Susan. 1987. Underlying redundancy and its reduction in a language developed without a language model: Constraints imposed by conventional linguistic input. In Barbara Lust (ed.), Studies in the acquisition of anaphora: Vol. II, applying the constraints, 105-133. Boston, MA: D. Reidel Publishing Company. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3387-3-6
28. Goldin-Meadow, Susan. 2003. The resilience of language. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
29. Goldin-Meadow, Susan & Heidi Feldman. 1977. The development of language-like communication without a language model. Science 197(4301). 401-403. DOI: 10.1126/science.877567
30. Goldin-Meadow, Susan & Carolyn Mylander. 1983. Gestural communications in deaf children: The non effect of parental input on language development. Science 221. 372-374. DOI: 10.1126/science.6867713
31. Goldin-Meadow, Susan & Carolyn Mylander. 1984. Gestural communication in deaf children: The effects and non effects of parental input in early language development. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 49(3). No. 207. DOI: 10.2307/1165838
32. Goldin-Meadow, Susan & Carolyn Mylander. 1990. Beyond the input given: The child's role in the acquisition of language. Language 66. 323-355. DOI: 10.2307/414890
33. Goldin-Meadow, Susan & Carolyn Mylander. 1998. Spontaneous sign systems created by deaf children in two cultures. Nature 391. 279-281. DOI: 10.1038/34646
34. Goldin-Meadow, Susan, Cynthia Butcher, Carolyn Mylander & Mark Dodge. 1994. Nouns and verbs in a self styled gesture system: What's in a name? Cognitive Psychology 27. 259-259. DOI: 10.1006/cogp.1994.1018
35. Goldin-Meadow, Susan, Carolyn Mylander & Cynthia Butcher. 1995. The resilience of combinatorial structure at the word level: Morphology in self-styled gesture systems. Cognition 56(3). 195-262. DOI: 10.1016/0010-0277(95)00662-I
36. Goldin-Meadow, Susan, Carolyn Mylander & Amy Franklin. 2007. How children make language out of gesture: Morphological structure in gesture systems developed by American and Chinese deaf children. Cognitive Psychology 55(2). 87-135. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.08.001
37. Hansen, Martje & Jens Heßmann. 2007. Matching propositional content and formal markers. Sign Language & Linguistics 10(2). 145-175. DOI: 10.1075/sll.10.2.05han
38. Herrmann, Annika & Markus Steinbach. 2011. Nonmanuals in sign languages. Sign Language & Linguistics 14(1). 3-8. DOI: 10.1075/sll.14.1.02her
39. Hoffmeister, Robert. 1978. The development of demonstrative pronouns, locatives and personal pronouns in the acquisition of American Sign Language by deaf children of deaf parents. PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota.
40. Hunsicker, Dea & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 2012. Hierarchical structure in a self-created communication system: Building nominal constituents in homesign. Language 88(4). 732-763. DOI: 10.1353/lan.2012.0092
41. Kubozono, Haruo. 1989. The mora and syllable structure in Japanese: Evidence from speech errors. Language and Speech 32(3). 249-278.
42. Ladd, D. Robert. 1992. An introduction to intonational phonology. In Gerard J. Docherty & Robert Ladd (eds.), Papers in laboratory phonology II: Gesture, segment, prosody, 321-334. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511519918.014
43. Lausberg, Hedda & Han Sloetjes. 2009. Coding gestural behavior with the NEUROGES ELAN system. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 41(3). 841-849. DOI: 10.3758/BRM.41.3.841
44. Liddell, Scott. 1978. Nonmanual signals and relative clauses in American Sign Language. In Patricia Siple (ed.), Understanding language through sign language research, 59-90. New York: Academic Press.
45. Liddell, Scott. 1980. American Sign Language syntax. The Hague: Mouton.
46. Malaia, Evie & Ronnie B. Wilbur. 2011. Kinematic signatures of telic and atelic events in ASL predicates. Language and Speech 55(3). 407-421. DOI: 10.1177/0023830911422201
47. McNeill, David. 1979. The conceptual basis of language. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
48. McNeill, David. 1992. Hand and mind. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
49. Mindel, Eugene D. & McCay Vernon. 1971. They grow in silence: The deaf child and his family. Silver Springs, MD: National Association of the Deaf.
50. Moores, Donald F. 1982. Educating the deaf: psychology, principles and practices (2nd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
51. Morford, Jill P. & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 1997. From here and now to there and then: The development of displaced reference in homesign and English. Child Development 68(3). 420-435. DOI: 10.2307/1131669
52. Nespor, Marina & Wendy Sandler. 1999. Prosody in Israeli Sign Language. Language and Speech 42(2-3). 143-176. DOI: 10.1177/00238309990420020201
53. Nespor, Marina & Irene Vogel. 2007. Prosodic phonology. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter [originally published in 1986, Dordrecht: Foris]. DOI: 10.1515/9783110977790
54. Nespor, Marina, Mohinish Shukla, Ruben van de Vijver, Cinzia Avesani, Hanna Schraudolf & Caterina Donati. 2008. Different phrasal prominence realizations in VO and OV languages. Lingue e Linguaggio 2. 1-29.
55. Newport, Elissa L. & Ted Supalla. 2000. Sign language research at the millennium. In Karen Emmorey & Harlan L. Lane (eds.), The signs of language revisited: An anthology to honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, 103-114. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
56. Pyers, Jennie E. & Karen Emmorey. 2008. The face of bimodal bilingualism: Grammatical markers in American Sign Language are produced when bilinguals speak to English monolinguals. Psychological Science 19(6). 531-536. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02119.x
57. Sandler, Wendy. 2010. Prosody and syntax in sign languages. Transactions of the Philological Society 108(3). 298-328. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2010.01242.x
58. Sandler, Wendy & Diane Lillo-Martin. 2006. Sign language and linguistic universals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139163910
59. Sandler, Wendy, Irit Meir, Svetlana Dachkovsky, Carol Padden & Mark Aronoff. 2011. The emergence of complexity in prosody and syntax. Lingua 121(13). 2014-2033. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2011.05.007
60. Sandler, Wendy, Irit Meir, Carol Padden & Mark Aronoff. 2005. The emergence of grammar: Systematic structure in a new language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(7). 2661-2665. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0405448102
61. Schiffrin, Deborah. 1994. Approaches to discourse. Oxford: Blackwell.
62. Selkirk, Elizabeth. 1984. Phonology and syntax: The relation between sound and structure. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
63. Singleton, Jenny L., Jill P. Morford & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 1993. Once is not enough: Standards of well-formedness in manual communication created over three different timespans, Language 69. 683-715. DOI: 10.2307/416883
64. Summerfield, A. Quentin. 1983. Audio-visual speech perception, lipreading and artificial stimulation. In M. E. Lutman & M. P. Haggard (eds.), Hearing science and hearing disorders, 132-179. New York, NY: Academic Press.
65. Supalla, Ted. 2008. Sign language archeology: Integrating historical linguistics with fieldwork on young sign languages. In Ronice de Quadros (ed.), Sign languages: Spinning and unraveling the past, present and future, 574-583. Petrópolis, Brazil: Editora Arara.
66. Swisher, M. Virginia. 1989. The language-learning situation of deaf students. Teachers of English to Speakers Other Languages Quarterly 23. 239-257.
67. Tang, Gladys, Diane Brentari, Carolina González & Felix Sze. 2010. Crosslinguistic variation in prosodic cues. In Diane Brentari (ed.), Sign languages, 519-542. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511712203.024
68. van der Kooij, Els & Onno Crasborn. 2008. Syllables and the word-prosodic system in Sign Language of the Netherlands. Lingua 118. 1307-1327. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.09.013
69. van der Kooij, Els, Onno Crasborn & Wim Emmerik. 2006. Explaining prosodic body leans in Sign Language of the Netherlands: Pragmatics required. Journal of Pragmatics 38(10). 1598-1614. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.07.006
70. Wilbur, Ronnie B. 1994. Eyeblinks and ASL phrase structure. Sign Language Studies 84. 221-240. DOI: 10.1353/sls.1994.0019
71. Wilbur, Ronnie B. 1999. Stress in ASL: Empirical evidence and linguistic issues. Language and Speech 2-3. 229-250. DOI: 10.1177/00238309990420020501
72. Wilbur, Ronnie B. 2000. Phonological and prosodic layering of nonmanuals in American Sign Language. In Karen Emmorey & Harlan L. Lane (eds.), The signs of language revisited: An anthology to honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, 213-244. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
73. Wilbur, Ronnie B. 2009. Productive reduplication in a fundamentally monosyllabic language. Language Sciences 31. 325-343. DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2008.12.017
74. Wilbur, Ronnie B. & Aleix Martínez. 2002. Physical correlates of prosodic structure in American Sign Language. Chicago Linguistic Society 38. 693-704.
75. Wilbur, Ronnie B. & Cynthia G. Patschke. 1998. Body leans and the marking of contrast in ASL. Journal of Pragmatics 30. 275-303. DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(98)00003-4
76. Wilbur, Ronnie B. & Cynthia G. Patschke. 1999. Syntactic correlates of brow raise in ASL. Sign Language & Linguistics 2. 3-40. DOI: 10.1075/sll.2.1.03wil
77. Wolford, George. 2012. Acquisition of prosody in American Sign Language. Master's thesis, Purdue University. West LaFayette, IN.