Euripides’ Critique of Athletics in Autolykus, fr. 282 N2

[ES] Son numerosos los testimonios, tanto en la literatura como en el arte, que dan cuenta del importante papel que el tema del deporte tuvo en la Antigüedad. Aunque la mayor parte de ellos ofrecen una imagen positiva de la figura del atleta, no faltaron tampoco las críticas a su modo de vida por parte de poetas, filósofos y médicos, que mostraban su desacuerdo ante un régimen que ponía en peligro su salud y consideraban escandalosa la excesiva valoración social de la que gozaban. El fr. 282 N2, perteneciente al drama satírico Autólico de Eurípides, resulta muy representativo en este sentido al hacerse eco de todos estos puntos de vista.

The role of syllables in sign language production

The aim of the present study was to investigate the functional role of syllables in sign language and how the different phonological combinations influence sign production. Moreover, the influence of age of acquisition was evaluated. Deaf signers (native and non-native) of Catalan Signed Language (LSC) were asked in a picture-sign interference task to sign picture names while ignoring distractor-signs with which they shared two phonological parameters (out of three of the main sign parameters: Location, Movement, and Handshape). The results revealed a different impact of the three phonological combinations. While no effect was observed for the phonological combination Handshape-Location, the combination Handshape-Movement slowed down signing latencies, but only in the non-native group. A facilitatory effect was observed for both groups when pictures and distractors shared Location-Movement. Importantly, linguistic models have considered this phonological combination to be a privileged unit in the composition of signs, as syllables are in spoken languages. Thus, our results support the functional role of syllable units during phonological articulation in sign language production.