Code-blending is the simultaneous productions of (aspects of) an utterance in sign and speech.
This is not the same as SimCom🚫, but something that can reveal the structure of and interaction between languages. #LingCologne
But what happens if one of the two languages still has an emerging grammar — as in bimodals using Nicaraguan Sign Language? #LingCologne
On the regularization of space in NSL, Deanna asks the audience to do what she does. She raises her right hand. ✋ Most people raise their right hand too. ✋✋✋ "It doesn't matter, but over time you might converge on a conventionalized way." #LingCologne
Personally I raised my left, but mostly because I'm live tweeting with my right (you're welcome). #LingCologne
Whereas cohort 2 of NSL innovate new word orders, CODAs with cohort 1 parents only use the word orders represented in their parents! #LingCologne
... and CODAs are much more prone to using SVO than the deaf signers. Hypothesis is that this is an influence from Spanish (bilingual transfer)! #LingCologne
NSL may be developing its own preferred word order (SOV), but CODAs seem to be resorting to an order familiar from Spanish (SVO). #LingCologne
Future work will look at the data in more detail, adding more variables to the coding (thematic roles, etc) to explore the effects further. Yay data! #LingCologne
Last night I was playing a little with Openpose data in #RStats. I realized it's not too hard to wrangle the Openpose output and plot signing directly using #ggplot2 and #gganimate, like so:
But I decided to make some tweaks so you can change the color of the signer+clothes, which makes seeing the hands a bit easier (contrast!)...
But also, why not give your signer a pretty turtleneck to wear?
You guys know that IKEA products are basically just #Swedish words and place names, right? Walking around an IKEA store is like walking through a dictionary.
This is a script simulating the idea in Swedish and other places/languages: github.com/borstell/fakea
So you can now input a video and it outputs it slower and/or repeated. Here's an example of a sign for 'deaf' in STS rendered with a repeated 30% speed playback!
(Oh, and passed to the make_gif() function as well!)
And the automatic face blurring works great! Even with multiple people in the image (or, like here, multiple repetitions of the same person in one composite image)!
So, it's like *very* easy to process and reconstruct actual images with only a few lines of code. As in plotting software redrawing the image, pixel by pixel.
Here's is a gif of me made with #ggplot2 and #gganimate. Sunday = fun day!