The Geometry of Visual Phonology (Dissertations in Linguistics) - Softcover

Uyechi, Linda Ann N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575860120 ISBN 13: 9781575860121

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1996

Synopsis

Uyechi presents an extremely thorough and formal empirical description of the various features of ASL signs, of interest to any theoretician in developing a theory of sign phonology or in testing claims in the theory of the phonology of spoken languages against data from a signed language. The author also presents a formalism for representing signs and makes a number of theoretical proposals based on this formalism. The volume's analysis indicates that the properties of core constructs of the spoken-language phonology, namely the segment and the syllable, differ from the properties of the core constructs in a formal framework of visual phonology. The Geometry of Visual Phonology also differs from other analyses in concluding that such differences are not immediately reconcilable. This volume provides a framework for discussing crucial differences between signs and speech.

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Book Description:

Uyechi presents a formal empirical description of the features of ASL signs, a formalism for representing signs, and theoretical proposals based on this formalism. Such theoretical work accompanies discussions of literature on sign-language phonology that the novice will find interesting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1575860120
• ISBN 13: 9781575860121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240