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Annual Review of Linguistics, 2023 The term homesign has been used to describe the signing of deaf individuals who have not had sustained access to the linguistic resources of a named language. Early studies of child homesigners focused on documenting their manual communication systems through the lens of developmental psycholinguistics and generative linguistics, but a recent wave of ...
Sara A. Goico, Laura Horton
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Impoverished language in early childhood affects the development of complex sentence structure. [PDF]
Dev SciAbstract The hypothesis that impoverished language experience affects complex sentence structure development around the end of early childhood was tested using a fully randomized, sentence‐to‐picture matching study in American Sign Language (ASL). The participants were ASL signers who had impoverished or typical access to language in early childhood ...
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Languages, 2022 “Z” is a young sign language developing in a family whose hearing members speak Tzotzil (Mayan). Three deaf siblings, together with an intervening hearing sister and a hearing niece, formed the original cohort of signing adults.
John B. Haviland
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Languages, 2022 The noun–verb distinction has long been considered a fundamental property of human language, and has been found in some form even in the earliest stages of language emergence, including homesign and the early generations of emerging sign languages.
Yasamin Motamedi +5 more
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Documenting a Reduction in Signing Space in Nicaraguan Sign Language Using Depth and Motion Capture
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, we use motion tracking technology to document the birth of a brand new language: Nicaraguan Sign Language. Languages are dynamic entities that undergo change and growth through use, transmission, and learning, but the earliest stages of this process are generally difficult to observe as most languages have been used and passed ...
Molly Flaherty, Asha Sato, Simon Kirby
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Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 5, May 2022., 2022 Abstract Sign languages use multiple articulators and iconicity in the visual modality which allow linguistic units to be organized not only linearly but also simultaneously. Recent research has shown that users of an established sign language such as LIS (Italian Sign Language) use simultaneous and iconic constructions as a modality‐specific resource ...
Anita Slonimska +2 more
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A Systematic Investigation of Gesture Kinematics in Evolving Manual Languages in the Lab
Cognitive Science, Volume 45, Issue 7, July 2021., 2021 Abstract Silent gestures consist of complex multi‐articulatory movements but are now primarily studied through categorical coding of the referential gesture content. The relation of categorical linguistic content with continuous kinematics is therefore poorly understood. Here, we reanalyzed the video data from a gestural evolution experiment (Motamedi,
Wim Pouw +3 more
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Correlations Between Handshape and Movement in Sign Languages
Cognitive Science, Volume 45, Issue 5, May 2021., 2021 Abstract Sign language phonological parameters are somewhat analogous to phonemes in spoken language. Unlike phonemes, however, there is little linguistic literature arguing that these parameters interact at the sublexical level. This situation raises the question of whether such interaction in spoken language phonology is an artifact of the modality ...
Donna Jo Napoli, Casey Ferrara
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Linguistically deprived children: meta-analysis of published research underlines the importance of early syntactic language use for normal brain development [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2017 We analyzed all published reports of individuals not exposed to syntactic language until puberty: two feral children, who grew up without hearing any language, and eight deaf linguistic isolates, who grew up communicating to their families using homesign
Andrey Vyshedskiy +2 more
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Negation, questions, and structure building in a homesign system [PDF]
Cognition, 2011 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, use gestures called homesigns to communicate. Homesigns have been shown to contain many of the properties of natural languages.
Amy, Franklin +2 more
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