Evie Malaia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1498199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evie Malaia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evie |
| FAMILY NAME | Malaia |
| SIGNATURE | MALAIA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4700-0257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Grammatical control of sign language production
Introduction The manuscript presents an experimental investigation into the linguistic and motor control mechanisms underlying grammatical marker production in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). It focuses on the cross-linguistically attested phonological parameter of hand articulator tension and its role as a grammatical marker for adjective intensification. Method By combining advanced methods, including motion capture and electromyography (EMG), th…
The interaction of syntax, non-manuals, and prosodic cues as potential topic markers in Austrian Sign Language
Topic is often marked only by prosody across languages. In sign languages, prosody is expressed by features similar to those in speech: i.e., sign duration, velocity and amplitude of movement (cf. slope and range of pitch). Topicalized signs usually occur sentence-initially, are followed by a pause, and may show longer duration than nontopics. We used pausing and duration characteristics to resolve a puzzle concerning the status of OSV sentences …
Complexity in sign languages
Sign languages are human communication systems that are equivalent to spoken language in their capacity for information transfer, but which use a dynamic visual signal for communication. Thus, linguistic metrics of complexity, which are typically developed for linear, symbolic linguistic representation (such as written forms of spoken languages) do not translate easily into sign language analysis. A comparison of physical signal metrics, on the o…
Age of sign language acquisition has lifelong effect on syntactic preferences in sign language users
Acquisition of natural language has been shown to fundamentally impact both one’s ability to use the first language and the ability to learn subsequent languages later in life. Sign languages offer a unique perspective on this issue because Deaf signers receive access to signed input at varying ages. The majority acquires sign language in (early) childhood, but some learn sign language later—a situation that is drastically different from that of …
Age of acquisition effects differ across linguistic domains in sign language
Information Transfer Capacity of Articulators in American Sign Language
The ability to convey information is a fundamental property of communicative signals. For sign languages, which are overtly produced with multiple, completely visible articulators, the question arises as to how the various channels co-ordinate and interact with each other. We analyze motion capture data of American Sign Language (ASL) narratives, and show that the capacity of information throughput, mathematically defined, is highest on the domin…
Deductive Versus Probabilistic Reasoning in Healthy Adults
It Still Isn't Over
The interaction between language and perception networks in the brain can hold the key to the biological bases of language evolution. In language, every sentence is built around a verb, which describes an event. During perception, humans constantly and automatically segment reality into individualized event (verb) units. The cognitive connection between the perceptual segmentation of events and their grammatical expression in language is a novel …
Kinematic Signatures of Telic and Atelic Events in ASL Predicates
This article presents an experimental investigation of kinematics of verb sign production in American Sign Language (ASL) using motion capture data. The results confirm that event structure differences in the meaning of the verbs are reflected in the kinematic formation: for example, in the telic verbs (THROW, HIT), the end-point of the event is marked in the verb sign movement by significantly greater deceleration, as compared to atelic verbs (S…
Effects of Verbal Event Structure on Online Thematic Role Assignment
Sign languages
Kinematic Signatures of Telic and Atelic Events in ASL Predicates
This article presents an experimental investigation of kinematics of verb sign production in American Sign Language (ASL) using motion capture data. The results confirm that event structure differences in the meaning of the verbs are reflected in the kinematic formation: for example, in the telic verbs (THROW, HIT), the end-point of the event is marked in the verb sign movement by significantly greater deceleration, as compared to atelic verbs (S…
It Still Isn't Over
The interaction between language and perception networks in the brain can hold the key to the biological bases of language evolution. In language, every sentence is built around a verb, which describes an event. During perception, humans constantly and automatically segment reality into individualized event (verb) units. The cognitive connection between the perceptual segmentation of events and their grammatical expression in language is a novel …
Sign languages
Information Transfer Capacity of Articulators in American Sign Language
The ability to convey information is a fundamental property of communicative signals. For sign languages, which are overtly produced with multiple, completely visible articulators, the question arises as to how the various channels co-ordinate and interact with each other. We analyze motion capture data of American Sign Language (ASL) narratives, and show that the capacity of information throughput, mathematically defined, is highest on the domin…
Effects of Verbal Event Structure on Online Thematic Role Assignment
Sign languages
Kinematic Signatures of Telic and Atelic Events in ASL Predicates
This article presents an experimental investigation of kinematics of verb sign production in American Sign Language (ASL) using motion capture data. The results confirm that event structure differences in the meaning of the verbs are reflected in the kinematic formation: for example, in the telic verbs (THROW, HIT), the end-point of the event is marked in the verb sign movement by significantly greater deceleration, as compared to atelic verbs (S…
Effects of Verbal Event Structure on Online Thematic Role Assignment
It Still Isn't Over
The interaction between language and perception networks in the brain can hold the key to the biological bases of language evolution. In language, every sentence is built around a verb, which describes an event. During perception, humans constantly and automatically segment reality into individualized event (verb) units. The cognitive connection between the perceptual segmentation of events and their grammatical expression in language is a novel …
Deductive Versus Probabilistic Reasoning in Healthy Adults
Information Transfer Capacity of Articulators in American Sign Language
The ability to convey information is a fundamental property of communicative signals. For sign languages, which are overtly produced with multiple, completely visible articulators, the question arises as to how the various channels co-ordinate and interact with each other. We analyze motion capture data of American Sign Language (ASL) narratives, and show that the capacity of information throughput, mathematically defined, is highest on the domin…
Age of acquisition effects differ across linguistic domains in sign language
Age of sign language acquisition has lifelong effect on syntactic preferences in sign language users
Acquisition of natural language has been shown to fundamentally impact both one’s ability to use the first language and the ability to learn subsequent languages later in life. Sign languages offer a unique perspective on this issue because Deaf signers receive access to signed input at varying ages. The majority acquires sign language in (early) childhood, but some learn sign language later—a situation that is drastically different from that of …
Complexity in sign languages
Sign languages are human communication systems that are equivalent to spoken language in their capacity for information transfer, but which use a dynamic visual signal for communication. Thus, linguistic metrics of complexity, which are typically developed for linear, symbolic linguistic representation (such as written forms of spoken languages) do not translate easily into sign language analysis. A comparison of physical signal metrics, on the o…
Grammatical control of sign language production
Introduction The manuscript presents an experimental investigation into the linguistic and motor control mechanisms underlying grammatical marker production in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). It focuses on the cross-linguistically attested phonological parameter of hand articulator tension and its role as a grammatical marker for adjective intensification. Method By combining advanced methods, including motion capture and electromyography (EMG), th…
The interaction of syntax, non-manuals, and prosodic cues as potential topic markers in Austrian Sign Language
Topic is often marked only by prosody across languages. In sign languages, prosody is expressed by features similar to those in speech: i.e., sign duration, velocity and amplitude of movement (cf. slope and range of pitch). Topicalized signs usually occur sentence-initially, are followed by a pause, and may show longer duration than nontopics. We used pausing and duration characteristics to resolve a puzzle concerning the status of OSV sentences …
Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sign language (8 works) · American Sign Language (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Natural language processing (6 works) · Cognition (5 works)