Anastasia Bauer

University of Cologne | UOC · Linguistic Department

The paper represents the first corpus-based study of mouthings in Russian sign language. Distribution and variation of mouthing on the basis of a set of twenty freqently ocurring RSL signs is analyzed. The paper shows that sign languages differ with regard to the frequency of mouthing with manual signs.

In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of spatial grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of individual signs to structure of interrogative and negative sentences. The main interest is the manifestation of signing space - the...

Dies ist die erste Einführung in die slavistische Linguistik, die nicht nur russistisch ist, sondern sich an Studierende aller slavischen Sprachen richtet. Dabei berücksichtigt sie sowohl die Synchronie als auch die Diachronie. Die Leseri⃰nnen werden empathisch, mit angemessenen didaktischen Vereinfachungen, aber ohne Komplexität zu negieren, in di...

We conduct a study on language attitudes among deaf Ukrainian signers who newly immigrated to Germany. We apply the method of language portraits (LPs), which has been successfully used (Busch 2012; Kusters & Meulder, 2019; Kusters et al. 2022) to investigate the embodied multilingual repertoires. Using LPs we explore the language practices and ideo...

This research aims at disentangling two different function (alignment and feedback) of smiling in spontaneous dyadic signed interaction.

This study investigates head nods in natural dyadic German Sign Language (DGS) interaction, with the aim of finding whether head nods serving different functions vary in their phonetic characteristics. Earlier research on spoken and sign language interaction has revealed that head nods vary in the form of the movement. However, most claims about th...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of multimodal communication research, this follow-up to Gregori et al. (2023) explores the transformative role of machine learning (ML), particularly using multi-modal large language models, in tracking, augmenting, annotating, and analyzing multimodal data. Building upon the foundations laid in our previous work,...

Form-function correlation: v Expressing different types of modal meanings is the most common function of all three forms of PU in the three studied SLs: vPU lateral in associated with negative meanings (e.g. lack of knowledge, disappointment) most frequently; vPU still and forward are most often associated with neutral meanings (e.g. hesitation, re...

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110726626-007/html

While some aspects of mouthings have been previously investigated, many topics in the use of this cross-modal contact phenomenon in sign languages remain un(der)studied, and not much is known about mouthings in Russian Sign Language (RSL), in particular. This article examines various aspects of mouthings as these are used by native RSL signers and...

Spoken languages make up only one aspect of the communicative landscape of Indigenous Australia—sign languages are also an important part of their rich and diverse language ecologies. Australian Indigenous sign languages are predominantly used by hearing people as a replacement for speech in certain cultural contexts. Deaf or hard-of-hearing people...

http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/36690

This study adds novel data by looking at reduced mouthing in RSL and contributes to the question whether the signers do have access to the prosodic information of spoken words. This can best tested in a sign language surrounded by a spoken language with a different word stress pattern as hitherto analyzed, e.g in Russian. RSL corpus data suggest th...

Eyasu Hailu Tamene, The sociolinguistics of Ethiopian Sign Language: A study of language use and attitude. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2018. Pp. 160. Hb. $60. - Volume 48 Issue 2 - Anastasia Bauer

This poster summarizes the recent corpus analysis done on the multifunctional discourse marker PALM-UP (PU) in Russian Sign Language (RSL). We analyze the role of simultaneous non-manual components in the use and interpretation of PU in RSL corpus (Burkova 2015). Our analysis revelead that the co-occuring nonmanual components (body shifts, head mov...

Kinship plays a central role in organizing interaction and other social behaviors in Indigenous Australia. The spoken lexicon of kinship has been the target of extensive consideration by anthropologists and linguists alike. Less well explored, however, are the kin categories expressed through sign languages (notwithstanding the pioneering work of A...

Sign languages use the hands as main articulators which is why the study of non-manuals has been somewhat neglected in sign linguistic research for a long time. However, sign languages make use of different kinds of non-manuals, such as facial expression, eye gaze or mouth gestures in order to convey meaning. Concerning the mouth as articulator, ma...

The thesis presents a typological account of classifier construction in both language modalities.