On the rhythm of head movements in Finnish and Swedish Sign Language sentences
Jantunen, T., Mesch, J., Puupponen, A., & Laaksonen, J. (2016). On the rhythm of head movements in Finnish and Swedish Sign Language sentences. In J. Barnes, A. Brugos, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, & N. Veilleux (Eds.), Speech Prosody 2016 : Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Boston University, USA, 31 May - 3 June 2016 (pp. 850-853). International Speech Communication Association. Speech prosody. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-174
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This paper investigates, with the help of computer-vision technology,
the similarities and differences in the rhythm of the
movements of the head in sentences in Finnish (FinSL) and
Swedish Sign Language (SSL). The results show that the
movement of the head in the two languages is often very similar:
in both languages, the instances when the movement of the
head changes direction were distributed similarly with regard
to clause-boundaries, and the contours of the roll (tilting-like)
motion of the head during the sentences were similar. Concerning
differences, direction changes were found to be used
more effectively in the marking of clause-boundaries in FinSL,
and in SSL the head moved nearly twice as fast as in FinSL.
However, the small amount of data means that the results can
be considered to be only preliminary. The paper indicates the
roll angle of the head as a domain for further work on headrelated
rhythm.
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Speech Prosody 2016 : Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Boston University, USA, 31 May - 3 June 2016ISSN Search the Publication Forum
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