The Emergence of Sign Languages
We are pleased to present a Special Issue of Languages on the topic of Sign Language Emergence. Sign languages are the only extant languages that can be caught in the act of being born and developing with no model, and they, therefore, offer the only empirical evidence for language emergence in huma...
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| description | We are pleased to present a Special Issue of Languages on the topic of Sign Language Emergence. Sign languages are the only extant languages that can be caught in the act of being born and developing with no model, and they, therefore, offer the only empirical evidence for language emergence in human societies. We have brought together a collection of articles on emerging sign languages that contribute a great deal to our current understanding of this process.This Special Issue covers eleven different emerging sign languages around the world. The articles deal with several aspects of language emergence, including, most notably: (1) the relationship between the emerging language and the culture of the larger society; (2) the role of iconicity in the emergence of sign language; (3) the relationship between the shared context in a small signing community and the degree of variation in the vocabulary; and (4) the vulnerability of budding sign languages. Spoken creole languages are also young, but are different from emerging sign languages, in that the speakers of pidgins from which creoles are assumed to have descended already had native languages. One article compares the features of creoles and of emerging sign languages.We are especially pleased with the diversity and breadth of interests of the contributors to the volume, who are based on four continents. The languages that they cover are equally diverse in their geographical provenance. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-988212024-03-24T11:40:09Z The Emergence of Sign Languages Sandler, Wendy Aronoff, Mark Padden, Carol Kata Kolok negation grammaticalization language emergence language change non-manuals gesture sign language social structure lexical variation agent-based modeling language shift mergence Israeli Sign Language Kufr Qassem Sign Language bilinguals language preference homesign emerging grammar turn-taking acquisition socialization Mexico Tzotzil silent gesture interaction improvisation grammatical categories sign language emergence iconicity phonology classifiers Central Taurus Sign Language village sign language emerging lexicon object descriptions iconic representations Nicaraguan Sign Language non-manual markers wh-questions conventionalization handshape creole pidgin word order embedding aspect inflection sign language evolution signing space verb agreement pronouns Yucatec Maya Sign Language n/a thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics We are pleased to present a Special Issue of Languages on the topic of Sign Language Emergence. Sign languages are the only extant languages that can be caught in the act of being born and developing with no model, and they, therefore, offer the only empirical evidence for language emergence in human societies. We have brought together a collection of articles on emerging sign languages that contribute a great deal to our current understanding of this process.This Special Issue covers eleven different emerging sign languages around the world. The articles deal with several aspects of language emergence, including, most notably: (1) the relationship between the emerging language and the culture of the larger society; (2) the role of iconicity in the emergence of sign language; (3) the relationship between the shared context in a small signing community and the degree of variation in the vocabulary; and (4) the vulnerability of budding sign languages. Spoken creole languages are also young, but are different from emerging sign languages, in that the speakers of pidgins from which creoles are assumed to have descended already had native languages. One article compares the features of creoles and of emerging sign languages.We are especially pleased with the diversity and breadth of interests of the contributors to the volume, who are based on four continents. The languages that they cover are equally diverse in their geographical provenance. 2023-04-05T12:52:47Z 2023-04-05T12:52:47Z 2023 book ONIX_20230405_9783036562452_100 9783036562452 9783036562469 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/98821 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6874 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6874 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-6246-9 10.3390/books978-3-0365-6246-9 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036562452 9783036562469 288 Basel open access |
| spellingShingle | Kata Kolok negation grammaticalization language emergence language change non-manuals gesture sign language social structure lexical variation agent-based modeling language shift mergence Israeli Sign Language Kufr Qassem Sign Language bilinguals language preference homesign emerging grammar turn-taking acquisition socialization Mexico Tzotzil silent gesture interaction improvisation grammatical categories sign language emergence iconicity phonology classifiers Central Taurus Sign Language village sign language emerging lexicon object descriptions iconic representations Nicaraguan Sign Language non-manual markers wh-questions conventionalization handshape creole pidgin word order embedding aspect inflection sign language evolution signing space verb agreement pronouns Yucatec Maya Sign Language n/a thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics The Emergence of Sign Languages |
| title | The Emergence of Sign Languages |
| title_full | The Emergence of Sign Languages |
| title_fullStr | The Emergence of Sign Languages |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Emergence of Sign Languages |
| title_short | The Emergence of Sign Languages |
| title_sort | emergence of sign languages |
| topic | Kata Kolok negation grammaticalization language emergence language change non-manuals gesture sign language social structure lexical variation agent-based modeling language shift mergence Israeli Sign Language Kufr Qassem Sign Language bilinguals language preference homesign emerging grammar turn-taking acquisition socialization Mexico Tzotzil silent gesture interaction improvisation grammatical categories sign language emergence iconicity phonology classifiers Central Taurus Sign Language village sign language emerging lexicon object descriptions iconic representations Nicaraguan Sign Language non-manual markers wh-questions conventionalization handshape creole pidgin word order embedding aspect inflection sign language evolution signing space verb agreement pronouns Yucatec Maya Sign Language n/a thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics |
| topic_facet | Kata Kolok negation grammaticalization language emergence language change non-manuals gesture sign language social structure lexical variation agent-based modeling language shift mergence Israeli Sign Language Kufr Qassem Sign Language bilinguals language preference homesign emerging grammar turn-taking acquisition socialization Mexico Tzotzil silent gesture interaction improvisation grammatical categories sign language emergence iconicity phonology classifiers Central Taurus Sign Language village sign language emerging lexicon object descriptions iconic representations Nicaraguan Sign Language non-manual markers wh-questions conventionalization handshape creole pidgin word order embedding aspect inflection sign language evolution signing space verb agreement pronouns Yucatec Maya Sign Language n/a thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics |
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