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Author Wilcox, Sherman

Title The Phonetics of Fingerspelling
Published Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (114 pages)
Series Studies in speech pathology and clinical linguistics, 0927-1813 ; v. 4
Studies in speech pathology and clinical linguistics ; v. 4.
Contents THE PHONETICS OF FINGERSPELLING; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Chapter 1. A Linguistic Approach to Fingerspelling; The Structure of Signed Languages; Signs as Unsegmentable Wholes; Signs as Simultaneously Segmentahle; Signs as Sequentially Segmentahle; Fingerspelling; Lexical Borrowing; Research on Fingerspelling; Fingerspelling as a Research Tool; Models of Fingerspelling; The Production and Perception of Fingerspelling; Learning to Fingerspell; Fingerspelling Fluency; Coarticulation in Fingerspelling; Kinematics, Dynamics, and Articulatory Movements
Organization of the StudiesLearning to Vingerspell; The Phonetics of Fingerspelling; Chapter 2. Learningto Fingerspell; Adult Acquisition of Fingerspelling; Method; Subjects; Materials; Procedures; Results; Discussion; Chapter 3. The Measurement of Fingerspelling Movement; Background; Hardware; Software; Sample Data Analysis; Methods and Procedures for Motion Analysis Studies; Subjects; Stimulus Materials; Marker Placement and Attachment; Sampling Times and Rates; Room and Camera Arrangement; Calibratio; Chapter 4. Targets and Transitions; Models Revisited
The Salience of Targets and TransitionsDynamic Modeling of Phonetic Structure; Chapter 5. Towards a Dynamics of Fingerspelling; From Kinematics to Dynamics; Fingerspelling Speed; Cooperativity in Fingerspelling Production; Discussion; Chapter 6. Future Directions in Signed Language Research; The Linguistic Study of Fingerspelling; Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study; Motion Analysis of Signed Language; Learning to Fingerspell; Models of Fingerspelling; Sign Science and Speech Science: The Search for Unity; Speech as Gestures; Signing as Gestures; Is Speech Special?; NOTES
Notes to Chapter OneNotes to Chapter Two; Notes to Chapter Four; Notes to Chapter Five; Notes to Chapter Six; References; Index
Summary We now know that natural signed languages such as American Sign Language, French Sign Language, British Sign Language and others are fully independent languages. But natural signed languages are only one way of conveying language in the visual/gestural modality. Signed languages also have mechanisms for representing the material of oral languages. Fingerspelling is one example of such a representational system. This book examines fingerspelling from a phonetic perspective. Several studies of the kinematics of fingerspelling articulators are reported. From these detailed analyses of articulator
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Finger spelling.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonetics
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Sign Language.
Finger spelling
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonetics
Form Electronic book
LC no. 92008926
ISBN 9789027277190
9027277192
1283424401
9781283424400
9786613424402
6613424404