LIN 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Handshape, Spoken Language, Handedness
2 Mar 2020
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Ease of articulation affects the relative frequency of some forms over others in spoken language and sl. Closing/opening movements of the fingers often lead to path movements of the entire hand (and possible forearm) E. g. , those with only the index, thumb, or little finger extended, or with all fingers extended. Signs losing some iconicity over time for easier articulation: Phonetic variation can concern many aspects of sign production. We sometimes sign something bigger as a degree modifier. I. e. , if we"re talking about something bigger (iconicity) Determines how we say what we say. How your voice is pitched to convey a certain meaning. Prosody is the use of suprasegmental features (pitch, duration, intensity): At the lexical level (lexical tone, lexical stress) we won"t be concerned with these. At the non-lexical level, to convey information about the structure and meaning of utterances that"s what we"ll care about. Compound reduction (when two roots combine together to form a different sign)
