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Analysis on types and characteristics of Korean sign language movement

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2015, 16(1), pp.219-236
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Sangbae CHOI 1,  이창원 2

1공주대학교
2한국복지대학교

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ABSTRACT

This research analyzed 9,379 Korean sign language(KSL) signs to investigate types and emergence frequency, and distinctive feature characteristics of KSL movement. The results are following. First, movement types of KSL sign were movement forms, movement directions, and movement manners and there were 61 movements in KSL sign. Movement forms were composed of straight, circular, curved, pivotal, and free movements. Movement directions were composed of up and down, left and right, front and rear directions and 10 types diagonal directions. Movement manners were composed of qualitative changes such as fast and slow movement, repetition, contact and approaching movements. Three movement variants were detected in the curcular direction. Second, 4.39 movements were used for express one sign on average, and the high frequency order of movement was movement manner, straight, free, pivotal, curved, and circular movement. Path movement was 77% and local movement was 13%. Third, minimal pairs and free variants were also found in KSL movements. This result reveals that KSL movement has phonological rules as spoken languages do.

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