Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages [PDF]
Ideas about morphological complexity have been used to classify languages and to link complexity to language age and social structure. Creoles and sign languages are often framed as younger and structurally simpler than other languages.
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Effects of Age-of-Acquisition on Proficiency in Polish Sign Language: Insights to the Critical Period Hypothesis. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Tomaszewski P +3 more
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Emergence of negation in a Turkish homesign system: Insights from the family context [PDF]
, 2022 Gökgöz, K. +4 more
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Semantic structures, communicative strategies and the emergence of language [PDF]
, 2012 How did human language become so structurally complex? This dissertation presents evidence that complex syntactic rules in modern human language emerged via a pre-syntactic stage that was governed by semantic principles.
Schouwstra, Marieke
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Cumulative cultural evolution, population structure and the origin of combinatoriality in human language. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 Kirby S, Tamariz M.
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Great ape interaction: Ladyginian but not Gricean. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Scott-Phillips T, Heintz C.
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Acquisition of Sign Languages. [PDF]
Annu Rev Linguist, 2021 Lillo-Martin D, Henner J.
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House Rules: On the Normativity of Meaning and Homesign Communication Systems [PDF]
In this dissertation I examine metasemantic issues related to the phenomenon of homesign communication. Most children born with severe congenital hearing impairment are raised by caregivers who are not Deaf, and who are sometimes unable to provide their ...
Phillips, Donovan
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Becoming human: human infants link language and cognition, but what about the other great apes? [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2020 Novack MA, Waxman S.
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From Seed to System: The Emergence of Non-Manual Markers for Wh-Questions in Nicaraguan Sign Language. [PDF]
Languages (Basel), 2022 Kocab A, Senghas A, Pyers J.
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