Anna Puupponen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna Puupponen is involved.
2025 The use of constructed action and its relationship with age and sign language development among children acquiring Finnish Sign Language Sign Language & Linguistics 28:2, pp. 208–262 | Article
Children’s use of constructed action (CA) has been linked to language as well as cognitive and social development, but the relationship among these aspects is not yet well understood. This research explores children’s use of CA in their produced narratives and how its use relates to children’s… read more
2025 Constructed action in the narrative tasks of children and adults using Finnish Sign Language Sign Language & Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This article describes the use of a specific type of enactment — constructed action (CA) — by children acquiring Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) and adults who use FinSL as their first language. Constructed action was investigated from the recordings of two narrative tasks performed by the… read more
2020 The more you move, the more action you construct: A motion capture study on head and upper-torso movements in constructed action in Finnish Sign Language narratives Gesture 19:1, pp. 72–96 | Article
This paper investigates, with the help of motion capture data processed on corpus principles, the characteristics of head and upper-torso movements in constructed action and regular narration (i.e., signing without constructed action) in FinSL. Specifically, the paper evaluates the validity of… read more
2015 Head movements in Finnish Sign Language on the basis of Motion Capture data: A study of the form and function of nods, nodding, head thrusts, and head pulls Sign Language & Linguistics 18:1, pp. 41–89 | Article
This paper reports a study of the forms and functions of head movements produced in the dimension of depth in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Specifically, the paper describes and analyzes the phonetic forms and prosodic, grammatical, communicative, and textual functions of nods, head thrusts,… read more