Anna Puupponen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1454085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Puupponen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Puupponen |
| SIGNATURE | PUUPPONEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1683-685X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constructed action in the narrative tasks of children and adults using Finnish Sign Language
This article describes the use of a specific type of enactment — constructed action (CA) — by children acquiring Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) and adults who use FinSL as their first language. Constructed action was investigated from the recordings of two narrative tasks performed by the children and the adults. In the tasks, the signers were shown still-image and video materials and asked to retell the events happening in the materials. The chil…
The use of constructed action and its relationship with age and sign language development among children acquiring Finnish Sign Language
Children’s use of constructed action (CA) has been linked to language as well as cognitive and social development, but the relationship among these aspects is not yet well understood. This research explores children’s use of CA in their produced narratives and how its use relates to children’s age and Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) skills. Twenty-one children aged 4 to 10 years who had acquired FinSL from early childhood onwards participated in th…
Opening up Corpus FinSL: Enriching Corpus Analysis With Linguistic Ethnography in a Study of Constructed Action
Corpus methods are now established within the field of signed language linguistics. Empirical investigations of signed language corpora have challenged many early assumptions about the nature of deaf community signed languages, while making us more aware of the limitations of traditional corpus documentation methods. One limitation relates to insufficient documentation of ethnographic information that is often necessary for accurately understandi…
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension
Sign languages (SLs) are expressed through different bodily actions, ranging from re-enactment of physical events (constructed action, CA) to sequences of lexical signs with internal structure (plain telling, PT). Despite the prevalence of CA in signed interactions and its significance for SL comprehension, its neural dynamics remain unexplored. We examined the processing of different types of CA (subtle, reduced, and overt) and PT in 35 adult de…
Sociolinguistic Studies of Finnish Sign Language
This article aims to review the sociolinguistic situation of Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) and signers in Finland in general and provide an overview of some sociolinguistic studies conducted so far on FinSL. In their daily lives, signers, both deaf and hearing, often navigate multiple discourse contexts involving diverse communication practices that are both multilingual and multimodal. Specific attention is paid in this article to the sociolingu…
The Contribution of Event-Related Potentials to the Understanding of Sign Language Processing and Production in the Brain: Experimental Evidence and Future Directions
Functional neuroimaging allows investigation of the timing properties of the brain mechanisms underlying covert language processing. This paper presents a review of the use of the neuroimaging technique called Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) in sign language (SL) research. In the field of neurolinguistics, ERPs have been widely used in the study of spoken language, but their use in SL is still rare. Studying the neurocognitive aspects of SL could…
Variation in the use of constructed action according to discourse type and age in Finnish Sign Language
The more you move, the more action you construct: A motion capture study on head and upper-torso movements in constructed action in Finnish Sign Language narratives
This paper investigates, with the help of motion capture data processed on corpus principles, the characteristics of head and upper-torso movements in constructed action and regular narration (i.e., signing without constructed action) in FinSL. Specifically, the paper evaluates the validity of two arguments concerning constructed action: that constructed action forms a continuum with regular narration, and that constructed action divides into thr…
Variation in the use of constructed action according to discourse type and age in Finnish Sign Language
The more you move, the more action you construct: A motion capture study on head and upper-torso movements in constructed action in Finnish Sign Language narratives
This paper investigates, with the help of motion capture data processed on corpus principles, the characteristics of head and upper-torso movements in constructed action and regular narration (i.e., signing without constructed action) in FinSL. Specifically, the paper evaluates the validity of two arguments concerning constructed action: that constructed action forms a continuum with regular narration, and that constructed action divides into thr…
Opening up Corpus FinSL: Enriching Corpus Analysis With Linguistic Ethnography in a Study of Constructed Action
Corpus methods are now established within the field of signed language linguistics. Empirical investigations of signed language corpora have challenged many early assumptions about the nature of deaf community signed languages, while making us more aware of the limitations of traditional corpus documentation methods. One limitation relates to insufficient documentation of ethnographic information that is often necessary for accurately understandi…
The more you move, the more action you construct: A motion capture study on head and upper-torso movements in constructed action in Finnish Sign Language narratives
This paper investigates, with the help of motion capture data processed on corpus principles, the characteristics of head and upper-torso movements in constructed action and regular narration (i.e., signing without constructed action) in FinSL. Specifically, the paper evaluates the validity of two arguments concerning constructed action: that constructed action forms a continuum with regular narration, and that constructed action divides into thr…
The Contribution of Event-Related Potentials to the Understanding of Sign Language Processing and Production in the Brain: Experimental Evidence and Future Directions
Functional neuroimaging allows investigation of the timing properties of the brain mechanisms underlying covert language processing. This paper presents a review of the use of the neuroimaging technique called Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) in sign language (SL) research. In the field of neurolinguistics, ERPs have been widely used in the study of spoken language, but their use in SL is still rare. Studying the neurocognitive aspects of SL could…
Variation in the use of constructed action according to discourse type and age in Finnish Sign Language
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension
Sign languages (SLs) are expressed through different bodily actions, ranging from re-enactment of physical events (constructed action, CA) to sequences of lexical signs with internal structure (plain telling, PT). Despite the prevalence of CA in signed interactions and its significance for SL comprehension, its neural dynamics remain unexplored. We examined the processing of different types of CA (subtle, reduced, and overt) and PT in 35 adult de…
Sociolinguistic Studies of Finnish Sign Language
This article aims to review the sociolinguistic situation of Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) and signers in Finland in general and provide an overview of some sociolinguistic studies conducted so far on FinSL. In their daily lives, signers, both deaf and hearing, often navigate multiple discourse contexts involving diverse communication practices that are both multilingual and multimodal. Specific attention is paid in this article to the sociolingu…
Constructed action in the narrative tasks of children and adults using Finnish Sign Language
This article describes the use of a specific type of enactment — constructed action (CA) — by children acquiring Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) and adults who use FinSL as their first language. Constructed action was investigated from the recordings of two narrative tasks performed by the children and the adults. In the tasks, the signers were shown still-image and video materials and asked to retell the events happening in the materials. The chil…
The use of constructed action and its relationship with age and sign language development among children acquiring Finnish Sign Language
Children’s use of constructed action (CA) has been linked to language as well as cognitive and social development, but the relationship among these aspects is not yet well understood. This research explores children’s use of CA in their produced narratives and how its use relates to children’s age and Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) skills. Twenty-one children aged 4 to 10 years who had acquired FinSL from early childhood onwards participated in th…
Opening up Corpus FinSL: Enriching Corpus Analysis With Linguistic Ethnography in a Study of Constructed Action
Corpus methods are now established within the field of signed language linguistics. Empirical investigations of signed language corpora have challenged many early assumptions about the nature of deaf community signed languages, while making us more aware of the limitations of traditional corpus documentation methods. One limitation relates to insufficient documentation of ethnographic information that is often necessary for accurately understandi…
Hearing Impairment and Communication (8 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sign language (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works)