Towards a semiotics of typography

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Textual Meaning

This article outlines a social semiotic approach to analysing the ideational, interpersonal and textual meaning potentials of letter forms, drawing on Jakobson’s distinctive feature analysis and Lakoff and Johnson’s theory of experiential metaphor. Distinctive features are recognized and applied to the analysis of examples: weight, expansion, slope, curvature, connectivity, orientation and regularity.

The semiotics of movement and mobility

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Theo van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Movement Direction ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Live Action ◽  
Film And Video

The paper presents a framework for the distinctive feature analysis of movement and mobility in texts, performances and semiotic artefacts, showing its applicability to the analysis of meaning-making in dance, music, animated and live action film and video, and product design. Emphasis is placed on the role of movement and mobility in identity design. Identity design is realized by the style in which movements are performed and can be analysed in terms of the gradable distinctive features present in any movement – direction, expansiveness, velocity, force, angularity, fluidity, directedness and regularity. The paper includes a historical dimension, focusing on the development of movement and mobility as semiotic resources, and argues for the pioneering role of modernist artists in this development.

The Modification of Multiple Articulation Errors Based on Distinctive Feature Theory

1976 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonis Costello ◽  
Joanne M. Onstine
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Full Data ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Feature Theory

The effectiveness of articulation remediation procedures based on distinctive feature theory was evaluated through the administration of an articulation program designed for this purpose. Two preschool children with multiple phoneme errors which could be described by a distinctive feature analysis were the subjects. Both children substituted stop phonemes for most continuant phonemes. Each child was individually administered the distinctive feature program which is described in full. Data are presented which indicate the adequacy of. the treatment program, the acquisition of correct articulation of the two directly treated target phonemes, and the concurrent improvement of five other nontreated error phonemes. Such across-phoneme generalization was predicted by distinctive feature theory. Certain modifications in the treatment program are suggested and theoretical/empirical questions regarding articulation remediation from a distinctive features viewpoint are discussed.

A Distinctive Feature Analysis of Children’s Misarticulations

1971 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leija V. McReynolds ◽  
Kay Huston
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Efficient Approach ◽  
English System ◽  
Phonological Rules ◽  
The Way

The articulation of 10 children with severe misarticulations was subjected to a feature analysis. The 13 distinctive features of English phonology as proposed by Jakobson, Fant, and Halle (1952) and Chomsky and Halle (1968) were used for the study. Phonetic transcriptions of responses on the McDonald Deep Test of Articulation formed the basis for the analysis. Two sets of data were compiled: the children’s feature systems in comparison to the English system and a traditional articulation evaluation of phoneme articulation. Results indicated that children’s feature errors were consistent across phonemes which contained the feature. It was further determined that misarticulations can be only partially described as a function of absence of features. Many of the errors occurred in the way features were used in particular combinations or contexts by the children. Errors resulted when children applied rules for feature usage which were different from the phonological rules in English. It is suggested that a distinctive feature analysis may offer a more efficient approach to articulation training.

Routes to Object Constancy: Implications from Neurological Impairments of Object Constancy

1984 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glyn W. Humphreys ◽  
M. Jane Riddoch
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Principal Axis ◽  
Target Object ◽  
Matching Task ◽  
Size Discrimination ◽  
Form Discrimination ◽  
Object Constancy ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Global Properties ◽  
Feature Information

Previous studies have established the existence of neurological impairments of object constancy: the ability to recognize that an object has the same structure across changes in its retinal projection. Five case studies of brain-damaged patients with deficits in achieving object constancy are reported. To test object constancy, patients discriminated two photographs of a target object, taken from different views, from a photograph of a visually similar distractor object. Four patients showed impaired matching only when the principal axis of the target object in one photograph was foreshortened. The fifth patient showed impaired matching only when the saliency of the target object's primary distinctive feature was reduced. This double dissociation suggests that normally there may be two independent means of achieving object constancy: one by processing an object's local distinctive features, the other by describing the object's structure relative to the frame of its principal axis. Neurological damage can selectively impair either process. Further, this impairment can be independent of deficits in processing visual form, since two patients with a selective deficit in the foreshortened matching task showed relatively normal form discrimination. The patient dependent on local distinctive feature information showed a deficit in size discrimination. It is suggested that this patient fails to utilize global properties of form. This failure may underlie both his impairment in achieving object constancy and in processing certain dimensions of form.

The role of NZ English in a binary feature analysis of English short vowels

1976 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Short Vowels ◽  
Binary Feature ◽  
Acoustic Space ◽  
High Vowels

The Jakobsonian system of binary distinctive features is based on the premise that, as far as vowels are concerned, their articulation, and the resulting acoustic effects, are not distributed randomly over the available articulatory or acoustic space, but are organized into systems of binary contrasts, so that for example (in articulatory terms) a set of front vowels will be matched by a corresponding set of back vowels, a set of high vowels by a set of mid or low vowels, and so on. There will thus be a certain symmetry in the distribution of such vowels, either in their positions on a vowel quadrilateral, or in a similar schematic shape such as the five-vowel triangle.

scholarly journals Organization and management of mobility of building production and its distinctive features

2018 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 01134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyubov Manukhina ◽  
Larisa Prykina
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Predetermined Time

To the special features of building production in the construction of real estate can be attributed the mobility as the ability of its elements to move over long distances in certain directions, to concentrate in necessity to be combined in the place of a construction site in the form of facilities, rational functioning under specific conditions with a capacity sufficient to ensure obtaining at a predetermined time finished product. A distinctive feature of the mobility of construction production, compared with other types of productions, is that the building object is always in the immovable state, and all the instruments of production and living labor, in a predetermined order periodically are delivered in the construction area.

A phonological exploration of oral reading errors

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve K. Mościcki ◽  
Paula Tallal
Keyword(s):  
Oral Reading ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Position Effect ◽  
Beginning Readers ◽  
Final Position ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Reading Errors

ABSTRACTYounger readers, mean age 6;11, and older readers, mean age 8;7, matched on IQ and SES, read 18 consonant phonemes embedded in nonsense CVCs. Results indicated that (a) within groups, younger readers made significantly more errors on digraphs than graphs; (b) younger readers made significantly more errors on graphs in the final position; (c) there was no position effect for either group in reading digraphs. Analysis of errors based on the number of distinctive features shared within stimulus-response pairs revealed that (a) on graphs, both groups made significantly more errors that shared two distinctive features; (b) on digraphs, the majority of errors for younger readers shared one distinctive feature; (c) the predominant strategy on digraphs for both groups was to read one letter. These findings demonstrate that most oral reading errors produced by beginning readers are not random, but rather are systematically related to the stimulus.

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