Contrastive, Complementary, and Free Phonological Features in Slovenian Sign Language
Keywords:
phonology, phoneme, phonological feature, minimal pair, Slovenian Sign LanguageAbstract
When discriminating phonemes, oral language users automatically pay attention to phonological features and do not focus on their linguistically irrelevant characteristics, which may vary with respect to the speaker's gender, age, and emotional state. Signs are perceived in the same way by sign language users, but in sign languages, due to the visible modality, the phonological features are based on different physical quantities than linguists are used to. Using a minimal pair methodology, this article presents phonological features of the four natural classes (movements, handshapes, locations, and non-manual markings) together with their functions (discriminative, dependent, and free feature) in Slovenian Sign Language (SZJ).
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