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How Are Story Characters Introduced in Sign Language? A Comparison of Picture and Video Stories
What is it about?
This study investigates whether static picture sequences and dynamic video clips influence how deaf children and adults introduce the main characters of a story when retelling it in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). It focuses on the first mention of main characters and compares the linguistic strategies used across different visual stimulus types.
Why is it important?
Narrative tasks are widely used in language research and assessment, but different task designs can influence the language people produce. While this issue has been studied extensively in spoken languages, much less is known about sign languages. Understanding whether picture-based and video-based stimuli lead to different linguistic outcomes helps researchers choose appropriate elicitation methods and interpret findings more accurately.