The Influence of Visual Feedback and Register Changes on Sign Language Production: A Kinematic Study with Deaf Signers

Autor/inn/en	Emmorey, Karen; Gertsberg, Nelly; Korpics, Franco; Wright, Charles E.
Titel	The Influence of Visual Feedback and Register Changes on Sign Language Production: A Kinematic Study with Deaf Signers
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 30 (2009) 1, S.187-203 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S0142716408090085
Schlagwörter	Deafness; Vision; American Sign Language; Feedback (Response); Linguistic Input; Applied Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Language Processing; Visual Perception; Visual Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Sprachbildung; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Psycholinguistik; Sprachverarbeitung; Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Abstract	Speakers monitor their speech output by listening to their own voice. However, signers do not look directly at their hands and cannot see their own face. We investigated the importance of a visual perceptual loop for sign language monitoring by examining whether changes in visual input alter sign production. Deaf signers produced American Sign Language (ASL) signs within a carrier phrase under five conditions: blindfolded, wearing tunnel-vision goggles, normal (citation) signing, shouting, and informal signing. Three-dimensional movement trajectories were obtained using an Optotrak Certus system. Informally produced signs were shorter with less vertical movement. Shouted signs were displaced forward and to the right and were produced within a larger volume of signing space, with greater velocity, greater distance traveled, and a longer duration. Tunnel vision caused signers to produce less movement within the vertical dimension of signing space, but blind and citation signing did not differ significantly on any measure, except duration. Thus, signers do not "sign louder" when they cannot see themselves, but they do alter their sign production when vision is restricted. We hypothesize that visual feedback serves primarily to fine-tune the size of signing space rather than as input to a comprehension-based monitor. (As Provided).
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