Anàlisi de la variació del registre informal en llengua de signes catalana (LSC): aproximació a una descripció fonètica

Moya-Avilés, Berta

Anàlisi de la variació del registre informal en llengua de signes catalana (LSC): aproximació a una descripció fonètica

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Moya-Avilés, B. Anàlisi de la variació del registre informal en llengua de signes catalana (LSC): aproximació a una descripció fonètica. 2018. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35648

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Abstract

Catalan Sign Language (LSC), like most sign languages worldwide, is a minority language. Grammatical studies about sign languages have developed increasingly over the last few years, but there is little research of the discourse level. Specific knowledge about register and language variation in LSC is still lacking. In this paper we analysed a real informal LSC discourse to observe and define phonetic variation in tone. The results indicate that the informal tone is mainly characterized by a change in the configuration and in the location of the signs. Moreover, the weak drop phenomenon appears regularly, regardless of whether the signers are holding an object in their hands. There is also a phenomenon so far not contemplated: dominance reversals. Likewise, we found that phonetic variation is affected by body language as well. This paper provides valuable evidence of phonetic variation in an unstudied field in LSC discourse.