Conf érence de Chloé Marshall

[Aliyah MORGENSTERN]

Conférence de Chloé Marshall, City University London,
le 17 mai de 13h à 14h30, Institut du Monde Anglophone, Sorbonne  
Nouvelle, 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine 75006 Paris
salle 12.

'Comprehension and production of BSL classifier constructions by  
hearing adult learners and deaf signing children'.

Entity classifiers are highly productive morphological forms that are  
an integral part of signed languages, and that stand at the  
intersection of gesture and language. I will present a study that  
focuses on the comprehension and production of locative and  
distributive entity classifiers in British Sign Language (BSL).  
Hearing adult learners of BSL have little difficulty understanding  
entity classifiers, and even adults with no experience of BSL are able  
to understand classifiers. Adult learners' production of classifiers  
is considerably more effortful and less accurate, but even when they  
don't use classifiers, they find other ways of encoding the required  
locative and distributive information. Both tasks show that adult  
learners bring their visuo-spatial and gestural skills to the task of  
encoding locative and distributive information in BSL. I will also  
present preliminary results from the same tasks for deaf children who  
use BSL.

Aliyah MORGENSTERN

Professeur de linguistique
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Institut du Monde Anglophone
5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine
75006 Paris




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