Shared Context Facilitates Lexical Variation in Sign Language Emergence
Languages, 2022 It has been suggested that social structure affects the degree of lexical variation in sign language emergence. Evidence from signing communities supports this, with smaller, more insular communities typically displaying a higher degree of lexical ...
Katie Mudd, Connie de Vos, Bart de Boer
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From Word-formation to Culture-construction: COVID-19 Neologisms [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2021 The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak has led to the eye-catching emergence of new words and metaphors in the world. The important properties of languages are productivity and creativity as language users need new words to describe new concepts and ...
Hussein Mollanazar, Arghavan Omranipour
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Where do Features Come from? Evidence from Sign Language
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2015 The paper considers sign language phonological features in the context of the basic question about the origin of features. Based on earlier work by Stokoe (1960) and others, I show that signs are comprised of distinctive features which can be discretely
Wendy Sandler
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Metalinguistic Discourse in an Emerging Sign Language
LanguagesIn this paper, I explore metalinguistic discourse in Zinacantec Family Homesign (‘Z sign’), an emergent sign language developed by three deaf siblings and their hearing family members. In particular, I examine how metalinguistic discourse unfolds between
Austin German
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Novel compounding and the emergence of structure in two young sign languages
Glossa, 2018 This paper investigates how structure emerges in a young language, focusing on compounding in two young sign languages, Israeli Sign Language (ISL) and Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL).
Irit Meir, Oksana Tkachman
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Considerations on the emergence of human language [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2021 Like other animals, man expresses his simple and acute states by sonorous and imagistic manners that are more expressive than words, but these acts have too little to do with superior mental faculties.
Alexandru GAFTON
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The development of metaphorical language comprehension in typical development and in Williams syndrome [PDF]
, 2010 The domain of figurative language comprehension was used to probe the developmental relation between language and cognition in typically developing individuals and individuals with Williams syndrome.
Annette Karmiloff-Smith +41 more
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Conventionalization of Iconic Handshape Preferences in Family Homesign Systems
Languages, 2022 Variation in the linguistic use of handshapes exists across sign languages, but it is unclear how these iconic handshape preferences arise and become conventionalized.
Madeline Quam +2 more
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Natural Language Does Not Emerge 'Naturally' in Multi-Agent Dialog
, 2017 A number of recent works have proposed techniques for end-to-end learning of communication protocols among cooperative multi-agent populations, and have simultaneously found the emergence of grounded human-interpretable language in the protocols ...
Batra, Dhruv +3 more
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The development of subordinate clauses in German and Swedish as L2s: a theoretical and methodological comparison [PDF]
, 2014 In this article, we aim to contribute to the debate about the use of subordination as a measure of language proficiency. We compare two theories of SLA—specifically, processability theory (PT; Pienemann, 1998) and dynamic systems theory (de Bot, Lowie, &
Baten, Kristof, Håkansson, Gisela
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