Papers by Roberto Cirillo
Academia Letters, 2021
The reason why I decided to deal with this topic is that there are only a few works comparing sig... more The reason why I decided to deal with this topic is that there are only a few works comparing sign and verbal languages. Moreover some interesting insights on the faculty of language may come out of the observation of phenomena in two different language modalities. WORD ORDER The language used to talk about space, and in particular locative sentences, are the object of analysis for a comparison between the two types of language, signed and oral. It is especially word order calling for attention for this kind of sentence, as the orders observed are quite different. The comparison has been mainly carried out between the Italian Sign Language (LIS) and Italian (but references to other sign and oral languages are not missing). IT: la palla è sul tavolo ('the ball is on the table') LIS: TAVOLO-PALLA-PALLA-SOPRA ('TABLE-BALL BALL-ON(-IT)') LIS locative sentences «show a dominant order of the type: Reference Point-Located Element-Locative Relationship» (Laudanna, 1987, p. 223). Italian locative sentences show on the contrary an order like Located Element-Locative Relationship-Reference Point (ibidem, p. 224
Academia Letters, 2021
The reason why I decided to deal with this topic is that there are only a few works comparing sig... more The reason why I decided to deal with this topic is that there are only a few works comparing sign and verbal languages. Moreover some interesting insights on the faculty of language may come out of the observation of phenomena in two different language modalities. WORD ORDER The language used to talk about space, and in particular locative sentences, are the object of analysis for a comparison between the two types of language, signed and oral. It is especially word order calling for attention for this kind of sentence, as the orders observed are quite different. The comparison has been mainly carried out between the Italian Sign Language (LIS) and Italian (but references to other sign and oral languages are not missing). IT: la palla è sul tavolo ('the ball is on the table') LIS: TAVOLO-PALLA-PALLA-SOPRA ('TABLE-BALL BALL-ON(-IT)') LIS locative sentences «show a dominant order of the type: Reference Point-Located Element-Locative Relationship» (Laudanna, 1987, p. 223). Italian locative sentences show on the contrary an order like Located Element-Locative Relationship-Reference Point (ibidem, p. 224
Il linguaggio spaziale, e nella fattispecie le frasi locative, si prestano come oggetto di analis... more Il linguaggio spaziale, e nella fattispecie le frasi locative, si prestano come oggetto di analisi per una comparazione tra i due tipi di lingue, segnata e verbale. In particolare, suscita interesse la differenza che si riscontra tra le lingue, per questo tipo di frase, nell'ordine dei costituenti. Il confronto è stato condotto principalmente tra Lingua dei Segni Italiana e Italiano, ma non mancano riferimenti anche ad altre lingue (segnate e verbali).
As the title suggests, in this work we will try to provide a model for phonological grammaticalit... more As the title suggests, in this work we will try to provide a model for phonological grammaticality into a combinatorial computation framework. There is a lot of reasons why this theme appears interesting: we think that it may provide a basic response to many questions, such as the (in)variance problem 1 in L1 acquisition, the existence and acceptability of allophones, the adaptive listening of native speakers to foreign speakers' accents -and that it may also set new theoretical questions about how the mind builds the language system and about the perspective by which we get to know it more deeply and widely (in other words, the method of analysis).
Each of the Tables 1-3 examines a simple overall correlation between the types of tone systems fo... more Each of the Tables 1-3 examines a simple overall correlation between the types of tone systems found and another phonological property across all the languages sampled, but it should be borne in mind that this type of analysis does not address the question of whether any of the correlations found are due to fortuitous overlaps of inherited and areally-spread properties or represent systematic design features of languages. These results do, however, suggest that tonal complexity might be differently related to segment inventory complexity than it is to syllabic complexity, and that further analysis of these patterns would be worthwhile» 1 .
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