I'm a linguist working as a senior lecturer at the Sign Language Centre (SLC) in the Department of Language and Communication Studies at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ in Finland. In May 2019, I defended my doctoral thesis about the embodied communication of signers of Finnish Sign Language (FinSL), with a special focus on the semiotic features in the signals produced with the signer's face, head and torso. In my research I've been working with FinSL and Swedish SL corpus data as well as kinematic data. My current research focuses on SL depiction of signers of different ages and it includes methods of corpus linguistics, linguistic ethnography and cognitive neuroscience.
Specialties: Sign Language corpora, Sign Language semiotics, Motion Capture, Computer Vision, kinematic analysis
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An interview of my past and current research in the Researcher of the Month series of Fin-Clarin's The Language Bank of Finland and .
about the ongoing ShowTell project on SLC TV Youtube channel [in FinSL].
about the contents of my PhD thesis on SLC TV Youtube channel [in FinSL, incl. Finnish subtitles]. The interview has been in Viittomakielinen kirjasto [Finland's Sign Language Library].
IN PROGRESS:
Hernández, D., Puupponen, A., Keränen, J., Vandenitte, S., Anible, B, Ortega, G. & Jantunen, T. (forthcoming) Neuroelectrical and behavioral correlates of constructed action recognition in sign language.
Puupponen, A., Kanto, L., Kronqvist, A. & De Weerdt, D. (forthcoming). Sociolinguistic studies of Finnish Sign Language.
Puupponen, A. & Kanto, L. (under review). Constructed action in the narrative tasks of children and adults using Finnish Sign Language.
Kanto, L., Puupponen, A. & Hernández, D. (under review). The use of constructed action and its relation to sign language development among children acquiring Finnish Sign Language.
Sign languages
Connections between gesturing, prosody & grammar
Semiotics of embodied interaction
Corpus-based research on sign languages
Sign language phonetics
Sign language processing
