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Cognitive Science Seminar Series

Felicia Bisnath, Graduate Student, Linguistics
Monday, April 4, 2022
2:30-3:50 PM
Virtual
U-M Linguistics graduate student Felicia Bisnath will present "Socio-cognitive salience and production and perception of a multimodal construction in American Sign Language."

Title:
Socio-cognitive salience and production and perception of a multimodal construction in American Sign Language

Abstract:
Mouthing in signed languages refers to mouth movements corresponding to synchronic spoken language words that accompany manual signing. Mouthing constructions are pairings of a mouthing and manual sign and are multimodal in the sense that the mouthing component may be indexed with the oral-auditory modality e.g. the pairing of the English mouthing /kɑt/ and the manual sign CAT in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) with an overall meaning of ‘cat’ ( https://www.nzsl.nz/signs/4503). Due to its connection with spoken language and the minoritisation of signed languages, mouthing may have socio-cognitive salience in signed languages that affects its perception and production. In this talk I present a proposal to determine the socio-cognitive salience of mouthing in American Sign Language (ASL) and to test if/how it affects perception and production of mouthing, which has implications for understanding mechanisms of language change.
Building: Off Campus Location
Location: Virtual
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Event Password: Cogsci
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Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Cognitive Science, Graduate Students, Linguistics
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science, Department of Linguistics