New Insights Into Mouthings: Evidence From a Corpus-Based Study of Russian Sign Language
While some aspects of mouthings have been previously investigated, many topics in the use of this cross-modal contact phenomenon in sign languages remain un(der)studied, and not much is known about mouthings in Russian Sign Language (RSL), in particular. This article examines various aspects of mout...
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| description | While some aspects of mouthings have been previously investigated, many topics in the use of this cross-modal contact phenomenon in sign languages remain un(der)studied, and not much is known about mouthings in Russian Sign Language (RSL), in particular. This article examines various aspects of mouthings as these are used by native RSL signers and aims to contribute new insights into the use and origin of mouthings in this sign language. Based on novel data from the online RSL Corpus alongside additional elicited data, we describe the distribution, forms, functions and spreading patterns of mouthings. Our findings furthermore show that sign languages exhibit more extensive variation in the use of mouthings than has previously been thought. Moreover, we – thus far uniquely – describe mouthings also as a written-language-based contact phenomenon. This study has the potential to provide a better understanding of the nature of such contact-induced features as mouthings in sign languages in general and reveals a complex interplay of the modalities of signed, spoken and written languages. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de3a97d6cc9c4476856b5bdf91f66be92022-12-21T20:21:13ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-02-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.779958779958New Insights Into Mouthings: Evidence From a Corpus-Based Study of Russian Sign LanguageAnastasia Bauer0Masha Kyuseva1Slavic Department, University of Cologne, Cologne, GermanySchool of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey, Guildford, United KingdomWhile some aspects of mouthings have been previously investigated, many topics in the use of this cross-modal contact phenomenon in sign languages remain un(der)studied, and not much is known about mouthings in Russian Sign Language (RSL), in particular. This article examines various aspects of mouthings as these are used by native RSL signers and aims to contribute new insights into the use and origin of mouthings in this sign language. Based on novel data from the online RSL Corpus alongside additional elicited data, we describe the distribution, forms, functions and spreading patterns of mouthings. Our findings furthermore show that sign languages exhibit more extensive variation in the use of mouthings than has previously been thought. Moreover, we – thus far uniquely – describe mouthings also as a written-language-based contact phenomenon. This study has the potential to provide a better understanding of the nature of such contact-induced features as mouthings in sign languages in general and reveals a complex interplay of the modalities of signed, spoken and written languages.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.779958/fullmouthingscorpus analysisRussian Sign Languagemultimodalitylanguage contact phenomenonmouth actions |
| spellingShingle | Anastasia Bauer Masha Kyuseva New Insights Into Mouthings: Evidence From a Corpus-Based Study of Russian Sign Language Frontiers in Psychology mouthings corpus analysis Russian Sign Language multimodality language contact phenomenon mouth actions |
| title | New Insights Into Mouthings: Evidence From a Corpus-Based Study of Russian Sign Language |
| title_full | New Insights Into Mouthings: Evidence From a Corpus-Based Study of Russian Sign Language |
| title_fullStr | New Insights Into Mouthings: Evidence From a Corpus-Based Study of Russian Sign Language |
| title_full_unstemmed | New Insights Into Mouthings: Evidence From a Corpus-Based Study of Russian Sign Language |
| title_short | New Insights Into Mouthings: Evidence From a Corpus-Based Study of Russian Sign Language |
| title_sort | new insights into mouthings evidence from a corpus based study of russian sign language |
| topic | mouthings corpus analysis Russian Sign Language multimodality language contact phenomenon mouth actions |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.779958/full |
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