The contribution focuses on expanding the theoretical basis for teaching the Czech sign language (hereinafter CSL) and for its particular grammatical description. This knowledge is a necessary condition for efficient teaching both of deaf users (prelingually deaf children) and of hearing users (parents and family members, students of special pedagogy, interpreters etc.). More concretely, it reports on the results of research focusing on the subjective assessment of the perception of complexity of signs of CSL from the perspective of potentially hearing students. Another aim of the study was verification of the designed theoretical concept of counting of the number of morphemes in the CSL signs whose number is one of the crucial variables during the process of hierarchical dependences and subsequent verification of the validity of Menzerath-Altmann law in the case of CSL. In total, 28 signs of CSL were tested while those belong into 7 groups of motion matrices, while 235 respondents subjectively expressed via five-degree Likert scale their opinion on the complexity of a particular sign. From the results, it is concluded that there exists a direct proportional linear dependence between the number of morphemes of individual signs and assessment of their complexity. Based on the discovered results, also an adjustment of the way how to count morphemes was designed for the needs of further qualitatively linguistic analysis.
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- Adult MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Linguistics * history classification methods MeSH
- Manual Communication MeSH
- Persons with Hearing Disabilities MeSH
- Education of Persons with Hearing Disabilities MeSH
- Sign Language * MeSH
- Check Tag
- Adult MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
- Geographicals
- Czech Republic MeSH
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- Speech Acoustics * MeSH
- Acoustics * MeSH
- Phonetics MeSH
- Speech-Language Pathology classification standards MeSH
- Consensus MeSH
- Voice Quality * MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Linguistics classification standards MeSH
- Terminology as Topic * MeSH
- Vibration MeSH
- Vocalization, Animal classification MeSH
- Animals MeSH
- Sound MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Animals MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural MeSH
- MeSH
- Research Support as Topic MeSH
- Cognitive Science classification methods trends MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Linguistics history classification trends MeSH
- Metaphor MeSH
- Neurosciences history classification methods MeSH
- Persons with Hearing Disabilities classification rehabilitation MeSH
- Education methods trends MeSH
- Education of Persons with Hearing Disabilities MeSH
- Language Development Disorders etiology classification rehabilitation MeSH
- Sign Language MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Comparative Study MeSH
- MeSH
- Child MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Linguistics classification methods education MeSH
- Persons with Disabilities classification rehabilitation education MeSH
- Education classification methods trends MeSH
- Check Tag
- Child MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Book Review MeSH