Download or read book A Comparison of Chinese and Taiwan Sign Languages written by Wang Xu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: It is commonly believed that sign language is a universal language. However, linguists researching sign languages have demonstrated that deaf people from different communities have their own languages. This research is aimed at creating a synchronic lexical comparison of Taiwan Sign Language (TSL) and Chinese Sign Language (CSL). The corpus is a combination of two video databases, one for each of the sign languages. The CSL database is part of the project, "Chinese Deaf People and Linguistic Research on Chinese Sign Language", generously provided by Professor Gong Qunhu from Fudan University, Shanghai. The TSL database, "A Study of Taiwan Sign Language: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Digital Graphic Dictionary", is provided courtesy of Professor James H-Y Tai at the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. The modified Swadesh 100-word list is adopted for the comparison. Two previous studies on language sign comparison, Woodward (1993a) and McKee and Kennedy (2000) are examined in this study. It is found that while Woodward's (1993a) modification of Swadesh list is useful, his approach of comparison is not explicit. It is also found that McKee and Kennedy's approach has problems, particularly with respect to the fifth criteria "other" (in addition to the four phonological parameters of handshape, location, movement, and orientation). However, McKee and Kennedy's methodology has its merits, and can be adopted, although with modifications, for synchronic comparisons across sign language. In developing a new model for lexical comparison based on McKee and Kennedy's approach, it is found that iconicity and iconic motivation play an important role in the comparison of signs. It is also found that since our understanding of the relationship between sign phonology and morphology is limited at this stage, it is hard to make comparisons between a morphologically simple sign and a morphologically complex sign or between two morphologically complex signs. A new model which only applies to comparisons of morphological simple signs is thus proposed in this study. This new model includes iconicity, iconic motivation, handedness, and four phonological parameters--handshape (dez), location (tab), movement (sig), and orientation (on). This new model makes use of a flowchart, and develops three paths and six patterns of similar and different signs. With 11 pairs of signs involving compound signs exclude from the comparison in this study, the result of the lexical comparison of the remaining 89 pairs of CSL and TSL signs using the new model are: 11 identical signs, 11 similar signs, and 56 different signs. The paucity of identical and similar signs suggests the likelihood that CSL and TSL are unrelated languages. Since research into CSL and TSL is still in its infancy, there is a great deal of linguistic research and challenges in the future.
Download or read book East Asian Sign Linguistics written by Kazumi Matsuoka and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first references of linguistic research of sign languages in East Asia (including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong). The book includes the basic descriptions of aspects of Chinese (Shanghai, Tianjin) sign language, Hong Kong Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, Korean Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language, and Tibetan Sign Language. Table of contents Introduction Kazumi Matsuoka, Onno Crasborn and Marie Coppola Part 1: Manuals: Numerals, classifiers, modal verbs Historical relationships between numeral signs in Japanese Sign Language, South Korean Sign Language and Taiwan Sign Language Keiko Sagara Phonological processes in complex word formation in Shanghai Sign Language Shengyun Gu Classifiers and gender in Korean Sign Language Ki-Hyun Nam and Kang-Suk Byu Causative alternation in Tianjin Sign Language Jia He and Gladys Tan Epistemic modal verbs and negation in Japanese Sign Language Kazumi Matsuoka, Uiko Yano and Kazumi Maegawa Part 2: Non-manuals and space The Korean Sign Language (KSL) corpus and its first application on a study about mouth actions Sung-Eun Hong, Seong Ok Won, Hyunhwa Lee, Kang-Suk Byun and Eun-Young Lee Negative polar questions in Hong Kong Sign Language Felix Sze and Helen Le Analyzing head nod expressions by L2 learners of Japanese Sign Language: A comparison with native Japanese Sign Language signers Natsuko Shimotani Composite utterances in Taiwan Sign Language Shiou-fen Su Time and timelines in Tibetan Sign Language (TSL) interactions in Lhasa Theresia Hofer
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Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Phonology of Taiwan Sign Language and Signed Chinese written by 李信賢 and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics written by William S.-Y. Wang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.
Download or read book Language Maintenance and Language Shift Among the Chinese on Taiwan written by Russell Young and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Languages of Taiwan written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Hokkien, Standard Chinese, Hakka Chinese, Pe h- e-j, Taiwanese Mandarin, Fuzhou dialect, Pazeh language, Daighi tongiong pingim, Modern Literal Taiwanese, Bunun language, Formosan languages, Amis language, Paiwan language, Puyuma language, Saisiyat language, Phofsit Daibuun, Taiwanese Sign Language, Yami language, Sinckan Manuscripts, Atayalic languages, O, Tsouic languages, Northern Formosan languages, East Formosan languages, Babuza language, Huanna, Saaroa language, Comparison of Hokkien writing systems, Taiwanese Language Phonetic Alphabet, Basay language, Kanakanabu language.
Download or read book Chinese as a divided Language written by Jin-Jen Maryann Nee and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East Asian Sign Linguistics written by Kazumi Matsuoka and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first references of linguistic research of sign languages in East Asia (including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong). The book includes the basic descriptions of aspects of Chinese (Shanghai, Tianjin) sign language, Hong Kong Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, Korean Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language, and Tibetan Sign Language. Table of contents Introduction Kazumi Matsuoka, Onno Crasborn and Marie Coppola Part 1: Manuals: Numerals, classifiers, modal verbs Historical relationships between numeral signs in Japanese Sign Language, South Korean Sign Language and Taiwan Sign Language Keiko Sagara Phonological processes in complex word formation in Shanghai Sign Language Shengyun Gu Classifiers and gender in Korean Sign Language Ki-Hyun Nam and Kang-Suk Byu Causative alternation in Tianjin Sign Language Jia He and Gladys Tan Epistemic modal verbs and negation in Japanese Sign Language Kazumi Matsuoka, Uiko Yano and Kazumi Maegawa Part 2: Non-manuals and space The Korean Sign Language (KSL) corpus and its first application on a study about mouth actions Sung-Eun Hong, Seong Ok Won, Hyunhwa Lee, Kang-Suk Byun and Eun-Young Lee Negative polar questions in Hong Kong Sign Language Felix Sze and Helen Le Analyzing head nod expressions by L2 learners of Japanese Sign Language: A comparison with native Japanese Sign Language signers Natsuko Shimotani Composite utterances in Taiwan Sign Language Shiou-fen Su Time and timelines in Tibetan Sign Language (TSL) interactions in Lhasa Theresia Hofer
Download or read book Teaching Chinese as an International Language written by Yeng-Seng Goh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and accessible account which explores the teaching of Chinese as an international language from a Singapore perspective.
Download or read book Is Taiwan Chinese written by Melissa J. Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-02-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Melissa Brown looks at the issue of Tiawan - specifically whether or not the Taiwanese are of Chinese/Han ethnicity (as is claimed by the Chinese government) - or is there in fact a Taiwanese ethnicity that is in fact unique unto itself (as the Taiwanese claim).
Download or read book Lexical Borrowing in Taiwan Sign Language written by Hai-chen Chen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparing and Contrasting Compounds Morphologically and Semantically Between American Sign Language ASL English and Chinese written by Vanessa L. Hodge and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies on Indigenous Signed and Spoken Languages in Africa written by Emmanuel Asonye and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an important exploration of Africa’s rich linguistic diversity. The chapters delve into the complexities of linguistic research, preservation, and cultural understanding, with a regional focus covering indigenous African languages. It honours often-overlooked sign languages, making it a trailblazing work in its combination of signed and spoken languages within the African environment. This book is a must-have for anybody interested in African languages, providing new perspectives on language preservation, cultural identity, and the lasting spirit of linguistic diversity. The individual chapters present an invitation to discover, appreciate, and preserve Africa’s indigenous languages. This volume, intended for linguists, policy makers, and graduate and undergraduate students, presents a practical approach to deciphering the complexity of indigenous African languages, both signed and spoken.
Download or read book The Chinese Language written by John DeFrancis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1986-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley
Download or read book Variation in Indonesian Sign Language written by Nick Palfreyman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion. Using a corpus of spontaneous data from signers in the cities of Solo and Makassar, Palfreyman applies an innovative blend of methods from sign language typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics, with findings that have important implications for our understanding of grammaticalisation in sign languages. The book will be of interest to linguists and sociolinguists, including those without prior experience of sign language research, and to all who are curious about the history of Indonesia’s urban sign community. Nick Palfreyman is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS), University of Central Lancashire.
Download or read book Sign Languages of the World written by Julie Bakken Jepsen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a number of edited collections deal with either the languages of the world or the languages of particular regions or genetic families, only a few cover sign languages or even include a substantial amount of information on them. This handbook provides information on some 38 sign languages, including basic facts about each of the languages, structural aspects, history and culture of the Deaf communities, and history of research. This information will be of interest not just to general audiences, including those who are deaf, but also to linguists and students of linguistics. By providing information on sign languages in a manner accessible to a less specialist audience, this volume fills an important gap in the literature.
