Search results for "syntactic unit"

showing 1 items of 1 documents

The alignment of head nods with syntactic units in Finnish Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language

2016

In this paper we examine the relationship between specific head movement events – head nods, often treated as prosodic boundary markers – and syntactic units in Finnish (FinSL) and Swedish Sign Language (SSL). In the study we investigated the alignment of head nods with syntactic units on the basis of a total of 20 (10+10) FinSL and SSL narratives. The results of the study show that in both languages head nods appeared similarly on syntactic boundaries and that the tendency was to align nods sentence-finally. However, not all head nods behaved this way: for example, a relatively large number of head nods were also found to occur sentence-initially or elsewhere in the sentence. Furthermore, …

Swedish Sign Languagehead movementComputer scienceHead (linguistics)ruotsalainen viittomakieli02 engineering and technologySign languageSign (linguistics)0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering060201 languages & linguisticsGeneral Language Studies and LinguisticsCommunicationJämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistikbusiness.industry06 humanities and the artsSwedish Sign LanguageLinguisticslanguage.human_languagesyntactic unitboundary marker0602 languages and literaturelanguagesuomalainen viittomakieli020201 artificial intelligence & image processingbusinessFinnish Sign Language
researchProduct