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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Spoken language research identified a "subject preference" strategy for syntactic ambiguity.
  • This strategy favors interpreting sentence-initial noun phrases (NPs) as subjects.
  • The universality of this strategy across different language modalities was previously unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if the "subject preference" strategy applies to sign language processing.
  • To test the hypothesis that subject-first processing is modality-independent.
  • To explore how syntactic ambiguity is resolved in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS).

Main Methods:

  • Deaf signers of ÖGS viewed videos of syntactically ambiguous signed sentences.
  • Stimuli included sentences with Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) and Object-Subject-Verb (OSV) word orders.
  • Electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded brain activity to measure cognitive load and processing costs.

Main Results:

  • EEG data revealed higher cognitive load (negativity) for OSV compared to SOV stimuli, indicating syntactic reanalysis cost.
  • The event-related potential (ERP) effect for linguistic reanalysis occurred earlier than expected, before disambiguating sign movement.
  • Transitional articulator movements or co-occurring non-manual markings likely aided ambiguity resolution in the visual modality.

Conclusions:

  • The "subject preference" processing strategy is indeed universal, applying to both spoken and sign languages.
  • While the linguistic strategy is cross-modal, the specific cues used for ambiguity resolution differ between spoken and signed languages.
  • Sign language processing utilizes visual cues, such as transitional movements and non-manual markers, to facilitate the "subject preference" strategy.