Eyebrow position in grammatical and emotional expressions in Kazakh-Russian Sign Language: A quantitative study.

ABSTRACT: Facial expressions in sign languages are used to express grammatical functions, such as question marking, but can also be used to express emotions (either the signer's own or in constructed action contexts). Emotions and grammatical functions can utilize the same articulators, and the combinations can be congruent or incongruent. For instance, surprise and polar questions can be marked by raised eyebrows, while anger is usually marked by lowered eyebrows. We investigated what happens when different emotions (neutral/surprise/anger) are combined with different sentence types (statement/polar question/wh-question) in Kazakh-Russian Sign Language (KRSL), replicating studies previously made for other sign languages. We asked 9 native signers (5 deaf, 4 hearing children of deaf adults) to sign

SUBMITTER: Kimmelman V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7266324 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature