Generating a lexicon without a language model: Do words for number count? [PDF]
J Mem Lang, 2013 Homesigns are communication systems created by deaf individuals without access to conventional linguistic input. To investigate how homesign gestures for number function in short-term memory compared to homesign gestures for objects, actions, or ...
Spaepen E +4 more
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The Mind Hidden in Our Hands [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 443-468, July 2025.Our hands are always with us and are used for communication all over the world. When children do not have an established language model to learn from, they use their hands to gesture, and these gestures take on the forms of language.
Goldin-Meadow, Susan
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How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign. [PDF]
Gesture (Amst), 2013 All established languages, spoken or signed, make a distinction between nouns and verbs. Even a young sign language emerging within a family of deaf individuals has been found to mark the noun-verb distinction, and to use handshape type to do so. Here we ask whether handshape type is used to mark the noun-verb distinction in a gesture system invented ...
Hunsicker D, Goldin-Meadow S.
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The impact of interaction on variation in Zinacantec Family Homesign
GlossaEmerging sign languages provide the opportunity to observe the process by which signers create and converge on a lexicon. Some studies report that emerging sign languages exhibit more lexical and sub-lexical variation than their longer-established ...
Austin German
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Communicating about quantity without a language model: number devices in homesign grammar. [PDF]
Cogn Psychol, 2013 All natural languages have formal devices for communicating about number, be they lexical (e.g., two, many) or grammatical (e.g., plural markings on nouns and/or verbs). Here we ask whether linguistic devices for number arise in communication systems that have not been handed down from generation to generation.
Coppola M, Spaepen E, Goldin-Meadow S.
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The Balinese Homesign Corpus: New insights into corpus development in a rural signing context [PDF]
The Balinese Homesign Corpus is a collection of homesign varieties that emerged within the same gestural context as sign languages that are used in northern Bali, such as Kata Kolok.
Connie de Vos +7 more
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Hierarchical structure in a self-created communication system: Building nominal constituents in homesign. [PDF]
Language (Baltim), 2012 Deaf children whose hearing losses are so severe that they cannot acquire spoken language and whose hearing parents have not exposed them to sign language nevertheless use gestures, called homesigns , to communicate. Homesigners have been shown to refer to entities by pointing at that entity (a demonstrative, that).
Hunsicker D, Goldin-Meadow S.
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Natural and elicited:Sign language corpus linguistics and linguistic ethnography as complementary methodologies [PDF]
, 2022 Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 126-136, February 2022.
Goico, Sara A., Hodge, Gabrielle
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Memetics and the Parallel Architecture. [PDF]
Top Cogn SciAbstract The evolution of human communication and culture is among the most significant—and challenging—questions we face in attempting to understand the evolution of our species. This article takes up two frameworks for theorizing about human communication and culture, namely, Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture of the human language faculty, and the ...
Planer RJ.
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Nonmanual Marking of Questions in Balinese Homesign Interactions: a Computer-Vision Assisted Analysis [PDF]
In recent years, both linguistic resources and computer-based tools have been developed that make it possible to investigate research questions that have not been studied before. In this study, we conduct a study of nonmanual question marking, using data
Bulla, Jan +4 more
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