Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140102124

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140102124

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

When do gestures become linguistic? Understanding the gesture-language interface through a corpusbased study of pointing signs in signed languages. This project will use corpus-based and experimental studies to compare pointing signs in three sign languages with pointing gestures used by hearing non-signers in order to answer the question: What relationship do gestures have to language? It will help us understand how pointing works as part of a sign language system, and how it is used as co-speech gesture. Both spoken languages and sign languages make use of pointing, and thus it represents a unique case study for the investigation of the relationship between gesture and language. This project will provide a distinctive contribution to our knowledge about the relationship between language and other aspects of human communication.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-2014

End Date: 12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $345,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics not elsewhere classified | Linguistics | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Discourse and Pragmatics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritage | Special Needs Education | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture

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