LIGN 148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Sign Language, Handshape, Minimal Pair
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Lecture 3 phonetic transcription & models of sign phonology. The two hands problem: symmetry & dominance, battison, 1978, dominance: when one hand moves and one doesn"t, the non- dominant hand has only 1 of an unmarked set of handshapes: a, These are unmarked hand shapes: symmetry: when both hands move, they have the same hs and the same (or alternating) mv, cross-linguistic phonetic constraints across sign languages. Preference for 2 handed signs where both hands move. Sublexical structure as simultaneous: stokoe, casterline, croneberg (1965, a dictionary of american sign language on linguistic principles, cheremes ~ phonemes, greek for hand , handshape dez , place of articulation tab , movement sig . Clicker questions: why are the rules of how two hands relate to one another in sign language important, they show how articulation pressures create sign phonology. Midterm questions: signs are often described as simultaneous bundles of features. Explain how this view is erroneous and provide evidence.
