The alignment of head nods with syntactic units in Finnish Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language
Puupponen, A., Jantunen, T., & Mesch, J. (2016). The alignment of head nods with syntactic units in Finnish Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language. 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. 168-172). International Speech Communication Association. Speech prosody. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-35
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In this paper we examine the relationship between specific
head movement events – head nods, often treated as prosodic
boundary markers – and syntactic units in Finnish (FinSL) and
Swedish Sign Language (SSL). In the study we investigated
the alignment of head nods with syntactic units on the basis of
a total of 20 (10+10) FinSL and SSL narratives. The results of
the study show that in both languages head nods appeared similarly
on syntactic boundaries and that the tendency was to
align nods sentence-finally. However, not all head nods behaved
this way: for example, a relatively large number of head
nods were also found to occur sentence-initially or elsewhere
in the sentence. Furthermore, head nods occurring on syntactic
boundaries also had non-boundary marking functions, and not
all syntactic boundaries occurred with head nods.
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