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Hodge, Ferrara & Johns<strong>to</strong>n: DGfS 2011 3/3/11<br />
II. Aim 1—How did we <strong>in</strong>vestigate what<br />
constitutes an IU <strong>and</strong> Clause <strong>in</strong> a<br />
SL?<br />
1) We annotated IUs us<strong>in</strong>g a perceptual approach<br />
(Chafe 1994; Croft 1995; Matsumo<strong>to</strong> 2000; Park 2002)<br />
2) We annotated c<strong>and</strong>idates for Clause units us<strong>in</strong>g a<br />
semantic approach <strong>to</strong> identify elements that function<br />
as predicate(s) <strong>and</strong> argument(s). As we annotated<br />
only possible Clause units, we currently refer <strong>to</strong><br />
them as ‘Clause-Like Units’ (CLU)<br />
(Van Val<strong>in</strong> 2005; Johns<strong>to</strong>n & Schembri 2006)<br />
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What is a signed/spoken In<strong>to</strong>nation<br />
Unit (IU)?<br />
A perceptual unit of cognitive process<strong>in</strong>g<br />
that <strong>in</strong>dicates shifts <strong>in</strong> active ideas, <strong>and</strong><br />
that is the right size <strong>to</strong> be processed <strong>in</strong><br />
its entirety<br />
(Chafe 1979, 1987, 1988, 1994; Croft 1995, 2007;<br />
Matsumo<strong>to</strong> 2000; Park 2002; Wouk 2008)<br />
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