Perception study -- ASL vs. Gestures

[Myriam Vermeerbergen]

Dear colleagues,

I agree with Adam's last point.

Some years ago, my colleague Eline Demey and myself published a paper on the comparison of simultaneous constructions in signed languages to instances of speech + co-speech gesture. The paper also includes an introduction to gesture and different types of gesture. 

The reference is:
Vermeerbergen, M. & Demey, E. 2007. Sign + Gesture = Speech + Gesture? Comparing Aspects of Simultaneity in Flemish Sign Language to Instances of Concurrent Speech and Gesture. In: Vermeerbergen, M, Leeson, L., Crasborn, O. (Eds.), Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and Function. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 257-282.

Feel free to contact me if you would like me to provide you with a copy.

Best wishes,

Myriam


dr. Myriam Vermeerbergen

LESSIUS/ K.ULeuven
Subfaculty of Language and Communication
Sint Andriesstraat 2
2000 ANTWERPEN
BELGIUM
myriam.vermeerbergen at lessius.eu




On 24 Apr 2012, at 01:14, Adam Schembri wrote:

> Many gesture researchers use the term 'emblem' to refer to gestures that
> are like lexical items in spoken and signed languages: conventionalised
> gestures that have culturally-specified forms and meanings (the 'ok',
> 'thumbs up' etc). As others on the SLLING list have already mentioned,
> some of these are widely recognised in different parts of the world, but
> many identical forms have quite different meanings in different cultures
> (the 'thumbs up' is used in some European countries to also represent the
> number one, for example, whereas in Australia I think most non-signers
> would use the extended index finger). Extending index and middle finger
> with palm towards the body and moving the hand configuration upwards in
> Australia and Britain was traditionally an obscene gesture, although I
> seem to see this less often these days in Australia as the extended middle
> finger gesture ('flipping the bird') has become more widely used.
> 
> I can't emphasise enough how important it is that sign language
> researchers acquaint themselves with the gesture literature. I have
> sometimes seen claims by sign language linguists about how sign languages
> differ from gesture that really don't sit well with what gesture
> researchers have shown.
> 
> Adam
> 
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> 
> On 24/04/12 0:43 , "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
> 
>> Adam,
>> What do you mean by "emblems"? Things like "come here", "stop", "hi", "be
>> quiet"? Group membership or other (semi-)secret signs in the non-SL sense
>> of "(secret) sign", such as gang or lodge recognition signals?
>> Best,
>> Mark Mandel
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12.04.20, at 8:52 PM, Adam Schembri wrote:
>> 
>>> Don,
>>> What do you mean by 'gestures'? Co-speech gesture? Emblems? Mime?
>>> Cheers,
>>> Adam Schembri
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 21/04/12 1:48 , "Grushkin, Donald A" <grushkind at CSUS.EDU> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Has there ever been a study investigating whether nonsigners with no
>>>> exposure to ASL or other signed languages can detect the difference
>>>> between gestures and natural signed languages such as ASL?  I seem to
>>>> think I did come across something like that once, but cannot rememmber
>>>> where or who, if it's not a figment of my imagination.
>>>> 
>>>> --Don Grushkin
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> 
>> 
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