Movement Research in ASL

[RAIN BOSWORTH]

My colleagues and I have taken a purely physical approach
to quantifying various parameters of an image of a signer
(velocity of the hands, spatial frequency of a signed
image, distance of the hands from point of fixation).  Our
purpose is guided by motivation to understand how the
brain computes and analyzes image statistics and to see
whether low level visual perception is altered by exposure
to the image properties of signing.

A chapter with our work is forthcoming in the TISLR
conference proceedings being published by Signum Press.
 This book is titled "Cross-linguistic perspectives in
sign language research. Selected papers from TISLR 2000."

Rain

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Rain G. Bosworth, Ph.D.
Retina Foundation of the Southwest
9900 N. Central Expressway, Suite 400
Dallas, Texas 75231
Tel:  214-363-3911, ext. 113
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On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 01:36:39 -0400
  "Kathy H." <kaylynnkathy at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>Dear List Members,
>
>I am a PhD student in linguistics at Purdue University,
>focusing on
>movements or the Movement parameter in ASL.  I am looking
>for information
>that specifically relates to movements of signed
>languages, either from an
>acquisition point of view, a physical point of view
>(velocity, etc.), an
>articulatory point of view (joints, etc.), a theoretical
>point of view, a
>psycholinguistic point of view, or from language errors,
>especially from
>around 1995 to the present, which has not been published.
> I would also like
>to know how to obtain a copy of the research.
>
>Thank you very much,
>Kathy Hansen
>
>
>Kathryn Hansen, M.A.
>Ph.D. student
>Graduate Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics
>1353 Heavilon Hall
>Purdue University
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