Hesitation Markers in Sign Language of the Netherlands a Corpus-Based Study

Autor/inn/en	Spijker, Laura; Oomen, Marloes
Titel	Hesitation Markers in Sign Language of the Netherlands a Corpus-Based Study
Quelle	In: Sign Language Studies, 23 (2023) 2, S.164-196 (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0302-1475
Schlagwörter	Sign Language; Cues; Computational Linguistics; Eye Movements; Pragmatics; Foreign Countries; Speech Communication; Contrastive Linguistics; Nonverbal Communication; Cartoons; Participant Characteristics; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gebärdensprache; Stichwort; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Augenbewegung; Pragmalinguistik; Ausland; Kontrastive Linguistik; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Zeichentrickfilm; Niederlande
Abstract	We present one of the first detailed studies on hesitation marking in a sign language. Based on the analysis of a set of monologues and dialogues from the "Corpus NGT" (Crasborn and Zwitserlood 2008; Crasborn, Zwitserlood, and Ros 2008), we describe the form and position of manual and nonmanual markers of hesitation in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). We show that palm-up, used as a hesitation marker, is akin to a "filled pause" in spoken language, both in its formal properties and its distribution. palm-up is regularly used to mark hesitation in dialogues, but far less commonly in monologues, which we suggest indicates that palm-up is used deliberately by signers to signal a delay in signing (cf. e.g., Maclay and Osgood 1959). Other manual markers of hesitation include sign holds and breaks in signing; their form and patterning in the data suggest they are closer to "unfilled pauses" in speech. As for nonmanuals, we show that all instances of hesitation in our data are marked by a change in the direction of eye gaze, suggesting that this is a clear pragmatic cue that signers use--intentionally or not--to signal a planning problem in signing. This fits well with previous observations that eye gaze plays an important role in turn-taking regulation in sign languages (e.g., Baker 1977). (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01