The Role of Non-Manual Expressions in the Boundary Marking of Prosodic Constituents in Brazilian Sign Language
The paper investigates non-manual expressions (NMEs) in the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and their combination with manual expressions (MEs) in signaling the border of prosodic constituents phonological phrase (ɸ) and intonational phrase (I). The analysis is based on the concept of prosodic stru...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repositorio: | Letras & letras (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/57477 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/letraseletras/article/view/57477 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Libras Fonologia Constituência Prosódica Expressões não manuais Expressões manuais |
| Sumario: | The paper investigates non-manual expressions (NMEs) in the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and their combination with manual expressions (MEs) in signaling the border of prosodic constituents phonological phrase (ɸ) and intonational phrase (I). The analysis is based on the concept of prosodic structure of sign languages by Brentari (2011), Nespor and Sandler (1999) and Sandler (2010, 2012). ENMs and EMs combined with ENMs are examined in two utterances in the corpus of Souza (2020), both produced by teachers of Libras. The analysis reveals recurring changes in MEs at the border of ɸ. When they are absent, the border of ɸ is signaled by NMEs such as eyebrow movement, change in mouth position, eyes squinting and blinking. At the border of I, NMEs are observed such as eyebrow raise, changes in the position of the head and body, eyes squinting and blinking, and reconfiguration of all facial expressions. |
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