Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31299/hrri.58.si.11
How do signers mark conditionals in German Sign Language? Insights from a Sentence Reproduction Task on the use of nonmanual and manual markers
Nina-Kristi Pendzich
; University of Göttingen, Seminar für Deutsche Philologie (SDP), Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3 37073 Göttingen
Jens-Michael Cramer
; University of Göttingen, Seminar für Deutsche Philologie (SDP), Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3 37073 Göttingen
Thomas Finkbeiner
; University of Göttingen, Seminar für Deutsche Philologie (SDP), Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3 37073 Göttingen
Annika Herrmann
; University of Hamburg, Institut für Deutsche Gebärdensprache und Kommunikation Gehörloser (IDGS), Gorch-Fock-Wall 7, 20354 Hamburg
Markus Steinbach
; University of Göttingen, Seminar für Deutsche Philologie (SDP), Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3 37073 Göttingen
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a Sentence Reproduction Task (SRT) investigating conditional sentences in German Sign Language (DGS). We found that participants mark conditional sentences in DGS by systematically using different non-manual markers on the antecedent and the consequent. In addition, these non-manual markers were frequently used in combination with one or two manual signs. However, the manual markers were omitted in the test sentences, i.e., the input stimuli the participants were asked to reproduce. The results of our experimental study are, on the one hand, consistent with descriptions of manual and non-manual strategies used to mark conditional sentences in different unrelated sign languages. On the other hand, our findings provide new insights on the multi-layered marking of conditional sentences in DGS.
Keywords
conditional sentences; German Sign Language; Sentence Reproduction Task; non-manual and manual markers
Hrčak ID:
284345
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Publication date:
12.10.2022.
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