Defining clause boundaries

[Adam Schembri, Deaf Studies]

Felix,

Here's the reference:

Nespor, Marina & Sandler, Wendy. (1999). Prosody in Israeli Sign
Language. In: Language and Speech 42: 2&3. pp. 143-176

Ronnie Wilbur reviews earlier work on ASL by Grosjean and others that
investigated the relationship between clauses and pausing in her book:

Wilbur, R. (1987) American Sign Language: Linguistic and applied
dimensions. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.

Ronnie Wilbur's more recent work on prosody is also interesting:

Wilbur, Ronnie B. (1994). Eyeblinks & ASL phrase structure. In: Sign
Language Studies 23: 84. pp. 221-240

Wilbur, Ronnie B. (2000). Phonological and prosodic layering of
nonmanuals in American Sign Language. In: Emmorey, Karen & Lane, Harlan
(Eds.). The signs of language revisited : an anthology to honor Ursula
Bellugi and Edward Klima. Mahwah, NJ : Erlbaum Ass. pp. 215-244

I'm sure there's also something related to this in Liddell (1977) but
don't have a copy of his book handy right now.

Adam Schembri
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> There is an article on prosody in sign language by Nespor and Sandler which
> may be helpful (I'm using it myself), but I can't remember the reference
> right now. If anyone else has readings on this topic: I'm very much
> interested, too!
>
> Inge
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felix Sze
> To: SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> Sent: 1/4/2001 6:15 PM
> Subject: Defining clause boundaries
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am now trying to investigate the topicalization
> phenomenon in Hong Kong Sign Language and would like
> to know more about how a clause can be defined in sign
> languages. Can anyone suggest some readings for me?
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Ms Felix Sze,
> University of Bristol
>
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