With simultaneous French-LSF interpretation.
Abstract
Research on bimodal bilinguals has shown that, if distinct articulators are involved, the same sentence can be produced simultaneously in a speech language and in a sign language. Based on this observation, we will ask whether the simultaneous production of two distinct but semantically related sentences is also possible in the same sign language, if the two sentences are produced by two distinct articulators (e.g. the two hands). It will be proposed that this is possible, and may explain the occurrence of structures that have always been recalcitrant to processing with the tools of formal linguistics. The consequences of this hypothesis for the Role-Shiftphenomenon and for theories that explain how hierarchical structure is linearized will also be discussed.
