The geometry of visual phonology
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Bibliographic Information
The geometry of visual phonology
（Dissertations in linguistics）
CSLI Publications, c1996
- : [pbk.]
- : hbk
Available at 33 libraries
Note
Revision of author's 1994 thesis
Bibliography: p. 231-235
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Part I. The Geometry of Visual Phonology: 1. Sign and speech
- 2. Visual phonology
- 3. A guide to the thesis
- Part II. Hand Prism: 1. 'Traditional' sign parameters
- 2. Hands that move
- 3. Handshape
- 4. Hand orientation
- Part III. Signing Space: 1. Local signing space
- 2. Global signing space
- 3. Discourse signing space
- 4. The hand in the signing space
- 5. Signing spaces, locations, and orientations
- Part IV. The Transition Unit: 1. Change in location
- 2. Change in handshape
- 3. Change in orientation
- 4. Moving on
- Part V. The Cell: 1. Simple signs
- 2. Agreement verbs
- 3. Transition unit and cell
- Part VI. Segment and Syllable: 1. Consonants, vowels, and syllables
- 2. Segments and features
- 3. Feature geometry and segments
- Part VII. A Different Mode: 1. The geometry of visual phonology
- 2. The phonology of visual geometry
- 3. Segment, syllable, unit transition, and cell
- 4. Universal phonology.
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