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4 - Interfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2019

Diane Brentari
Diane Brentari
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University of Chicago
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Summary

In this chapter, the ways that sign language phonology and prosodic structure interface with the other components of the grammar will be described, including how the nondominant hand interacts with morpho-syntactic and prosodic constituency. The most novel of the interfaces that will be discussed in this chapter will be the gesture–language interface, but the phonetics–phonology, morphology–phonology, and syntax/semantics–phonology interfaces will be discussed as well. This chapter also describes the details of higher-order prosodic structure not defined in earlier chapters – the phonological word (P-word; also referred to as the prosodic word), phonological phrase (P-phrase), and intonational phrase (I-phrase) – and provides evidence for prosody as independent from the rest of the grammar. This is of paramount importance because, in addition to showing how various components are interconnected, mismatches among different autonomous components of the grammar are one way we know that those components exist.

Keywords

gesture–language interfaceprosodic hierarchyprosodic constraintsprosodic cuesphonetics–phonology interfacemorphology–phonology interfacesemantics–prosody interface
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Sign Language Phonology , pp. 99 - 131
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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4.5 Further Reading

Brentari, D, Falk, J., Giannakidou, A, Herrmann, A., Volk, E. & Steinbach, M. (2018). Production and comprehension of prosodic markers in sign language imperatives. Frontiers in Psychology, Special issue on Visual Language (W. Sandler & C. Padden, eds.). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00770CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dachkovsky, S., Healy, C., & Sandler, W. (2013). Visual intonation in two sign languages. Phonology, 30, 211–252.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Liddell, S. (2003). Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Sandler, W. (2010). Prosody and syntax in sign languages. Transactions of the Philological Society, 108, 298–328Google Scholar
Wilbur, R. B. (2010). The semantics–phonology interface. In Brentari, D. (ed.), Sign languages: A Cambridge Language Survey (pp. 357–82). Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar

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  • Interfaces
  • Diane Brentari, University of Chicago
  • Book: Sign Language Phonology
  • Online publication: 04 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316286401.004
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  • Diane Brentari, University of Chicago
  • Book: Sign Language Phonology
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316286401.004
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  • Interfaces
  • Diane Brentari, University of Chicago
  • Book: Sign Language Phonology
  • Online publication: 04 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316286401.004
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