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Sisäkorvaistutetta käyttävien lasten viittomakielen ja puhutun kielen omaksuminen
2013
Artikkeli kasittelee suomalaisen viittomakielen ja suomen kielen kehitysta kuudella kuurolla sisakorvaistutetta kayttavalla lapsella. Lasten kuulevat vanhemmat alkoivat opiskella ja kayttaa viittomakielta lastensa kanssa kuulovammadiagnoosin selvittya. Aineisto on keratty vuosina 2005 ja 2006 kuvanauhoittamalla lapsen ja viittomakielisen aikuisen seka lapsen ja suomenkielisen aikuisen vuorovaikutustilanteita. Lasten iat vaihtelivat 2;9 vuodesta 7;6 vuoteen tutkimuksen alussa. Taustatietoa saatiin haastattelemalla vanhempia. Kieliaineistoista analysoitiin molempien kielien sanastoa, ilmausten pituutta, nominaalien ja verbaalien taivutusta, artikulaatiota, aikuisen puheen/viittomisen ymmartam…
Clausal coordination in Finnish Sign Language
2016
This paper deals with the coordination of clauses in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Building on conversational data, the paper first shows that linking in conjunctive coordination in FinSL is primarily asyndetic, whereas in adversative and disjunctive coordination FinSL prefers syndetic linking. Secondly, the paper investigates the nonmanual prosody of coordination: nonmanual activity is shown both to mark the juncture of the coordinand clauses and to draw their contours. Finally, the paper addresses certain forms of clausal coordination in FinSL that are sign language-specific. It is suggested that the sign language-specific properties of coordination are caused both by the fact that signe…
The Marginalisation of Finely Tuned Semiotic Practices and Misunderstandings in Relation to (Signed) Languages and Deafness
2014
AbstractWhen people draw on the available modal resources (e.g. gestures) in specific contexts over time, those resources come to display regularities. The more a community uses and regulates those resources, the more fully and finely articulated their regularities and patterns become. Modes, organised by regular means of representation, are constantly transformed by users, depending on what the community needs. This paper discusses the way semiotic resources and practices, i.e. social actions with a history, used by sign language signers in visually oriented communities, as well as the research in such domains, have been marginalised. The paper reflects some of the main reasons for such ma…
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages
2022
AbstractDo signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way? Here we compare how signers of five Western deaf signed languages coordinate fully conventionalized forms with more richly improvised semiotics to identify and talk about referents of varying agency. The five languages (based on a convenience sample) are Auslan, Irish Sign Language, Finnish Sign Language, Norwegian Sign Language, and Swedish Sign Language. Using ten retellings ofFrog, Where Are You?from each language, we analyze tokens of referring expressions with respect to: (a) activation status (new vs. maintained vs. re-introduced); (b) semiotic strategy (e.g., pointing sign, fingerspelling,…
Focal social actions through which space is configured and reconfigured when orienting to a Finnish Sign Language class
2018
Abstract This paper focuses on how signing students organise themselves spatially in social interactions in a university lecture hall. One may view space as a concrete location, a social construct, and a normative actor with historical trajectories. The study addresses the question, ‘What are the mediated actions through which the students and teacher (re)configure space for participating in a class?' Following a methodological framework of Mediated Discourse Analysis and multimodal interaction analysis, I approach this question by examining the social actions occurring when entering a lecture hall. The primary data includes video recordings, photos, and participatory observations, document…
Miten viittomakielen korpusta luodaan ja mihin sitä tarvitaan? Viittomakielten korpukset ja niiden tehtävät
2020
Artikkeli käsittelee suomalaisen ja suomenruotsalaisen viittomakielen korpusten luontia CFINSL-projektissa (Corpus project of Finland’s sign languages, Suomen viittomakielten korpusprojekti). Viittomakielillä ei ole kirjoitettua muotoa, joten korpusten laatiminen vaatii erilaista lähestymistä kuin korpusten luonti sellaisille puhutuille kielille, joilla on kirjoitettu muoto. Artikkelissa kuvataan ne menetelmät, joilla Jyväskylän yliopiston viittomakielen keskuksessa on koottu aineistoa suomalaisen ja suomenruotsalaisen viittomakielen korpukseen. Lisäksi kuvataan korpusaineiston teknistä käsittelyä, annotointia, metatietojen keruuta ja käsittelyä sekä aineiston säilytystä ja tutkijoiden käyt…
Creating Corpora of Finland’s Sign Languages
2016
This paper discusses the process of creating corpora of the sign languages used in Finland, Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) and Finland-Swedish Sign Language (FinSSL). It describes the process of getting informants and data, editing and storing the data, the general principles of annotation, and the creation of a web-based lexical database, the FinSL Signbank, developed on the basis of the NGT Signbank, which is a branch of the Auslan Signbank. The corpus project of Finland’s Sign Languages (CFINSL) started in 2014 at the Sign Language Centre of the University of Jyväskylä. Its aim is to collect conversations and narrations from 80 FinSL users and 20 FinSSL users who are living in different p…
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, …
On the rhythm of head movements in Finnish and Swedish Sign Language sentences
2016
This paper investigates, with the help of computer-vision technology, the similarities and differences in the rhythm of the movements of the head in sentences in Finnish (FinSL) and Swedish Sign Language (SSL). The results show that the movement of the head in the two languages is often very similar: in both languages, the instances when the movement of the head changes direction were distributed similarly with regard to clause-boundaries, and the contours of the roll (tilting-like) motion of the head during the sentences were similar. Concerning differences, direction changes were found to be used more effectively in the marking of clause-boundaries in FinSL, and in SSL the head moved near…