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9781575860121

The Geometry of Visual Phonology

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  • ISBN13:

    9781575860121

  • ISBN10:

    1575860120

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-06-01
  • Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study
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Summary

Uyechi presents an extremely thorough and formal empirical description of the various features of ASL signs, of interest to any theoretician in developing a theory of sign phonology or in testing claims in the theory of the phonology of spoken languages against data from a signed language. The author also presents a formalism for representing signs and makes a number of theoretical proposals based on this formalism. The volume's analysis indicates that the properties of core constructs of the spoken-language phonology, namely the segment and the syllable, differ from the properties of the core constructs in a formal framework of visual phonology. The Geometry of Visual Phonology also differs from other analyses in concluding that such differences are not immediately reconcilable. This volume provides a framework for discussing crucial differences between signs and speech.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
The Geometry of Visual Phonology
1(18)
Sign and Speech
4(2)
Visual Phonology
6(11)
A Guide to the Thesis
17(2)
Hand Prism
19(36)
Sign Parameters
19(2)
Hands that Move
21(3)
Handshape
24(25)
Hand Orientation
49(6)
Signing Space
55(42)
Local Signing Space
56(16)
Global Signing Space
72(3)
Discourse Signing Space
75(4)
Location and Orientation
79(16)
Signing Space, Location and Orientation
95(2)
The Transition Unit
97(50)
Change in Location
97(31)
Change in Handshape
128(8)
Change in Orientation
136(11)
The Cell
147(28)
Simple Signs
147(14)
Agreement Verbs
161(11)
Transition Unit and Cell
172(3)
Segment and Syllable
175(44)
Consonants, Vowels and Syllables
177(11)
Segments and Features
188(16)
Feature Geometry and Segments
204(15)
A Different Mode
219(12)
The Geometry of Visual Phonology
219(2)
The Phonology of Visual Geometry
221(3)
Segment, Syllable, Transition Unit and Cell
224(5)
Universal Phonology
229(2)
Bibliography 231(6)
Index 237

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