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Prosodic Markers And Utterance Boundaries In American Sign Language Interpretation

by Brenda Nicodemus

American sign languageFacial expressionGestureNonverbal communicationProsodic analysisDiscourse markers

Discusses the prosodic features of spoken and signed languages, and reports the findings of her groundbreaking research on characteristics of prosodic markers in ASL interpretation, including their frequency, number, duration, and timing. These markers are produced both sequentially and simultaneously and under conditions of highly precise timing and seem to be both systematic and stylistic.

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Book data: Open Library