Some Aspects of a Sign Language Quantitative Analysis
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Some Aspects of a Sign Language Quantitative Analysis
Original language description
National sign languages of the Deaf have been considered natural languages by linguists for more than fifty years. Judging by the available professional publications it does not appear, however, that this conclusion could be verified in the light of the foreseeable validity of the Menzerath-Altmann law (MAL), which is one of the key laws of quantitative linguistics. The MAL might therefore be used as a touchstone for detecting whether the communication system has the character of a full-fledged, natural language. It requires, among other things, identifying a related analogy of the sign language levels of the given “text” structures under consideration, segmented appropriately in terms of constructs and constituents. The desired positivity of the shape parameters in the MAL is calculated numerically and verified statistically by means of the coefficient of determination R2, jointly with the homoscedasticity and normality of random errors. Our concrete experiments concern the analysis of three speeches performed by three Deaf users of Czech Sign Language (český znakový jazyk = ČZJ) on given topics in ČZJ.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-18149S" target="_blank" >GA17-18149S: Theoretical Basis for Teaching Czech Sign Language Tested through Quantitative Linguistic Methods</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Words and Numbers. In Memory of Peter Grzybek (1957-2019)
ISBN
978-3-942303-89-7
Number of pages of the result
23
Pages from-to
81-103
Number of pages of the book
245
Publisher name
RAM-Verlag
Place of publication
Lüdenscheid
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