Figure–Ground Spatial Relationships in Finnish Sign Language Discourse [PDF]
Open Linguistics, 2020 This study is about expressing spatial relationships between Figure and Ground in Finnish Sign Language discourse and shows that the variation in this expression is primarily discourse dependent.
De Weerdt Danny
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The macrostructure of narratives produced by children acquiring Finnish Sign Language. [PDF]
J Deaf Stud Deaf EducThis article investigates the narrative skills of children acquiring Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Producing a narrative requires vocabulary, the ability to form sentences, and cognitive skills to construct actions in a logical order for the recipient ...
Pietarinen H, Kanto L.
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Constructed Action, the Clause and the Nature of Syntax in Finnish Sign Language
Open Linguistics, 2017 This paper investigates the interplay of constructed action and the clause in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Constructed action is a form of gestural enactment in which the signers use their hands, face and other parts of the body to represent the ...
Jantunen Tommi
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Agent defocusing in two-participant clauses in Finnish Sign Language
Glossa, 2019 This article investigates what strategies are used for defocusing the agent in two-participant clauses in FinSL. The question is approached by analyzing a set of data that consists of videotaped informational texts.
Sanna Nordlund
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Assessing Vocabulary in Deaf and Hearing Children using Finnish Sign Language [PDF]
The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020 This study investigates children's vocabulary knowledge in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL), specifically their understanding of different form-meaning mappings by using a multilayered assessment format originally developed for British Sign Language (BSL ...
Laura Kanto +2 more
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Cross-modal iconicity and indexicality in the production of lexical sensory and emotional signs in Finnish Sign Language [PDF]
Cognitive Linguistics, 2023 In the present study, cross-modal (i.e., across sensory modalities such as smell and sound) iconicity (i.e., resemblance) and indexicality (i.e., contiguity) in lexical sensory and emotional signs in Finnish Sign Language will be considered from an ...
Jarkko Keränen
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Clausal coordination in Finnish Sign Language [PDF]
Studies in Language, 2016 This paper deals with the coordination of clauses in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Building on conversational data, the paper first shows that linking in conjunctive coordination in FinSL is primarily asyndetic, whereas in adversative and disjunctive ...
Tommi Jantunen
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The alignment of head nods with syntactic units in Finnish Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language [PDF]
Speech Prosody 2016, 2016 In this paper we examine the relationship between specifichead movement events – head nods, often treated as prosodicboundary markers – and syntactic units in Finnish (FinSL) andSwedish Sign Langua ...
Anna Puupponen +2 more
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A typological look at kinship terms, colour terms and numbers in Finnish Sign Language [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter deals with Finnish sign language (FinSL). FinSL is the majority sign language in Finland’s deaf community, which has about 4000–5000 deaf sign language users.
Ritva Takkinen +2 more
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Evaluative language in spoken and signed stories told by a deaf child with a cochlear implant: words, signs or paralinguistic expressions? [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2011 In this paper the use and quality of the evaluative language produced by a bilingual child in a story-telling situation is analysed. The subject, an 11-year-old Finnish boy, Jimmy, is bilingual in Finnish sign language (FinSL) and spoken Finnish.
Lea Nieminen, Ritva Takkinen
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