Anaphoric strategies across language modalities: a comparison between Catalan and Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Anaphoric strategies across language modalities: a comparison between Catalan and Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
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- Mayol L, Barberà G. Anaphoric strategies across language modalities: a comparison between Catalan and Catalan Sign Language (LSC). J Psycholinguist Res. 2018;47(2):431-47. DOI: 10.1007/s10936-017-9540-9
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The goal of this paper is to compare the different anaphoric strategies that Catalan and Catalan Sign Language (LSC) use by means of a parallel corpus. In particular, our comparison is focused in an examination of the uses of overt subject pronouns in Catalan and how these uses are rendered in a language that exploits the visual-manual modality, such as LSC. As far as we know, this is one of the first studies to compare reference-tracking devices in a spoken and a signed language by means of a parallel corpus and incorporating both a descriptive and a theoretical perspective. All instances of overt pronouns in Catalan were analyzed and most of the data can be accounted with three factors: topic change, focus and contrast. As for LSC, the use of pronouns is rare and only few instances were found. Instead, other anaphoric strategies are used: while topic change and focus are primarily encoded with bare nouns, the expression of contrast relies on modality-specific features.Descripció
Un erratum d'aquest article s'ha publicat a Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022;51(3):235-6. DOI: 10.1007/s10936-021-09811-1 i també està disponible a http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56222