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Analysis on location of Korean Sign Language

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2013, 14(2), pp.1-20
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Sangbae CHOI 1

1세한대학교

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ABSTRACT

This research analyzed 9,557 Korean Sign Language(KSL) signs to investigate location and location constraints of KSL. The results are following. First, 46 locations and 47 location variants in KSL were found. This result reveal that types of locations of KSL are various more than previous studies’. Frequency of major locations area were 15 of head area, 12 of two hands relation area, 11 of torso area, 7 of arm area, 1 of neutral area. And minimal pairs, free variants, complementary distributions, and location appearance similarity(phonetic similarity) were also found in KSL locations. Second, there were location articulation constraints when single sign’s location change in KSL signs. If single sign’s first location is articulated in any 4 major location area(head, torso, arm, hand), last location is articulated in same major location area. And middle space of first location and last location in single sign was not a location or a variant but articulatory process. And location was restricted to 2 location in most single sign.

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