Analysis of records downloaded from the 2001 Jupiter Orbital Black Parallelopiped Investigation M... more Analysis of records downloaded from the 2001 Jupiter Orbital Black Parallelopiped Investigation Mission indicates that the basic source of failure was excessive emotional stress in the HAL computer, leading to a previously unknown condition now called Computational Paranoia. This in turn was an unforeseen side-effect of the design of the HAL-9000 series.
... gesture. It involves segmenting a stream of body movement into phases and identifying differe... more ... gesture. It involves segmenting a stream of body movement into phases and identifying different phase types. Two human ... studies. A large body of sign phonology literature focused on the lexical part of the body movement. Some studies ...
ABSTRACT Since Battison (1978), it has been noted in many signed languages that the Symmetry Cond... more ABSTRACT Since Battison (1978), it has been noted in many signed languages that the Symmetry Condition constrains the form of two-handed signs in which two hands move independently. The Condition states that the form features (e.g., the handshapes and movements) of the two hands are ‘symmetrical’. The Symmetry Condition has been regarded in the literature as a part of signed language phonology. In this study, we examine the linguistic status of the Symmetry Condition by comparing the degree of symmetry in signs from Sign Language of the Netherlands and speech-accompanying representational gestures produced by Dutch speakers. Like signed language, such gestures use hand movements to express concepts, but they do not constitute a linguistic system in their own right. We found that the Symmetry Condition holds equally well for signs and spontaneous gestures. This indicates that this condition is a general cognitive constraint, rather than a constraint specific to language. We suggest that the Symmetry Condition is a manifestation of the mind having one active ‘mental articulator’ when expressing a concept with hand movements.
Analysis of records downloaded from the 2001 Jupiter Orbital Black Parallelopiped Investigation M... more Analysis of records downloaded from the 2001 Jupiter Orbital Black Parallelopiped Investigation Mission indicates that the basic source of failure was excessive emotional stress in the HAL computer, leading to a previously unknown condition now called Computational Paranoia. This in turn was an unforeseen side-effect of the design of the HAL-9000 series.
... gesture. It involves segmenting a stream of body movement into phases and identifying differe... more ... gesture. It involves segmenting a stream of body movement into phases and identifying different phase types. Two human ... studies. A large body of sign phonology literature focused on the lexical part of the body movement. Some studies ...
ABSTRACT Since Battison (1978), it has been noted in many signed languages that the Symmetry Cond... more ABSTRACT Since Battison (1978), it has been noted in many signed languages that the Symmetry Condition constrains the form of two-handed signs in which two hands move independently. The Condition states that the form features (e.g., the handshapes and movements) of the two hands are ‘symmetrical’. The Symmetry Condition has been regarded in the literature as a part of signed language phonology. In this study, we examine the linguistic status of the Symmetry Condition by comparing the degree of symmetry in signs from Sign Language of the Netherlands and speech-accompanying representational gestures produced by Dutch speakers. Like signed language, such gestures use hand movements to express concepts, but they do not constitute a linguistic system in their own right. We found that the Symmetry Condition holds equally well for signs and spontaneous gestures. This indicates that this condition is a general cognitive constraint, rather than a constraint specific to language. We suggest that the Symmetry Condition is a manifestation of the mind having one active ‘mental articulator’ when expressing a concept with hand movements.
Uploads
Papers by Harry van der Hulst