Aspects of prosodic structure in Greek Sing Language
Abstract
The aim of the present study is to provide an analysis of the prosodic structure of Greek Sign Language (GSL), a language that is used by Greek Deaf and hard of hearing people. Sign languages rely on the gestural-visual model, which is an entirely different linguistic transmission system from that of spoken languages. Previous research on sign language prosody has established that sign language utterances can be structured into prosodic constituents according to Prosodic Hierarchy (Hayes 1984/1989; Selkirk 1986; Nespor and Vogel 1986). More specifically, several sign language researchers claim that specific types of manual markers such as holds, pauses and repetition of the signs and non-manual markers such as eye activities, eye bow movements, head and body movements may be equivalent to prosodic features, and that the boundaries of phonological and intonational phrases are systematically marked by a number of prosodic manual and non-manual markers (Nespor and Sandler 1999; Sandler an ...
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