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Analysis of interactive gestures, signs, and space among older Belgian French (BF) speakers and French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) signers
Lepeut, Alysson; Bolly, Catherine
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2017
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Analysis of interac/ve gestures, signs, and space
among older Belgian French (BF) speakers
and French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) signers
PhD: Alysson Lepeut (F.R.S.-FNRS & University of Namur)
Dir.: Dr. L. Meurant (F.R.S.-FNRS & University of Namur)
Dir.: Dr. C. T. Bolly (University of Cologne & Université catholique de Louvain)
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Physical and cogniKve changes in aging (e.g.,
decrease in tonus/muscle mass, arthriKs,
hearing loss, aNenKonal deficits, slowing of
informaKon processing, etc.)
•
Age-related changes shared by older signers
and gesturers è Impact on their language
and communicaKve skills (Thornton & Light,
2006)
How does the normal aging process affects
interac/ve gestures, signs, and space ?
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Sign Languages (SLs) as an autonomous
linguisKc system (Stokoe, 1960)
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Gestures as an integral part of Spoken
Languages (SpLs) (McNeill, 1992)
•
Few comparaKve studies on gestures in SLs and
SpLs (Bolly et al., 2015; Vermeerbergen &
Demey, 2007) è Differences between manuals
(e.g. palm-ups) and nonmanuals (e.g. facial
expressions)
What roles of gestures in social interac/on
when including the addressee into the
communica/on act (SpL and SL)?
Gestu
re/sig
n inte
rface
Is there any correlaKon between the gesture/sign
produced regarding their form and funcKon?
Is space used for the same communicaKve purposes?
Nadine, 75 y. old
(2 interv.: first-acquaintance vs. family)
① More interacKve gestures in first-acquaintance
encounter
② More difficulKes in processing speech and in
finding words with her daughter
③ Gesture space: extensive use of personal space
but wider use with first-acquaintance when
doing interacKve gestures
Tenta/ve explana/ons: face management,
empathic ability, personality traits, life
experiences, self-disclosure
Mul/modal corpus-based approach
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Data: CorpAGEst corpus + LSFB corpus
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ParKcipants: 9 older speakers (< 75 y. old), 15
older signers (< 66 y. old)
•
Tasks: milestones in aging (BF) and
explanaKon of a past memory (LSFB)
•
Cross-task comparison: 6 speakers / 6 signers
First cross-linguis/c study
between LSFB and Belgian French
(1)
Understand more about mulKmodal aspect of language interacKon
(2)
Achieve a beNer understanding of the interacKve world of older
Belgian-French speakers and signers
Bolly, C.T., Gabarró-López, S., & Meurant, L. 2015. PragmaKc gestures at the gesture-sign interface. Nonmanuals and palm-up gestures among older Belgian French speakers and French Belgian Sign Language signers. Oral presentaKon at the InternaKonal Conference Nonmanuals at the Gesture Sign Interface (NaGSI), October 2015, University of Gökngen, Germany. / Bolly, C.T., & Boutet, D. Forthcoming. The mulKmodal CorpAGEst corpus: Keeping an eye on pragmaKc competence in later life. Corpora 13(2). / Lepeut, A. 2015. Crossing roads between mulKmodality and intergeneraKonal interacKon: IntersubjecKvity in gesture. Master thesis (unpublished).
Université catholique de Louvain. See also hNp:www.corpagest.org / McNeill, D. 1992. Hand and Mind. What gestures reveal about thought. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press. / Meurant, L. 2015. Corpus LSFB. First digital open access corpus of movies and annotaCons of French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB). LSFB-Lab, University of
Namur, hNp://www.corpus-lso.be. / Stokoe, W.C. 1960. Sign Language Structure: An Outline of the Visual CommunicaKon Systems of the American Deaf. Proceedings of the Studies in LinguisCcs: Occasional papers 8. Buffalo: Department of Anthropology and LinguisKcs: University of Buffalo. / Thornton, R., & Light, L.L. 2006. Language
comprehension and producKon in normal aging. In E.J. Birren, & K.W. Schaie (eds.), The Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, pp. 262–279. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. / Vermeerbergen, M., & E. Demey, E. 2007. Sign + gesture = speech + gesture? Comparing aspects of simultaneity in Flemish Sign Language to instances of concurrent speech and gesture. In M. Vermeerbergen, L. Leeson, & O. Crasborn (eds.), Simultaneity in Signed Languages, pp. 257–283. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
