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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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Language:English
Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
Subjects:
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
Online Access:ONIX_20230405_9783036562452_100
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