The Emergence of Sign Languages

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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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
Subjects:
Language
acquisition
agent-based modeling
aspect
bilinguals
Central Taurus Sign Language
classifiers
conventionalization
creole
embedding
emerging grammar
emerging lexicon
gesture
grammatical categories
grammaticalization
handshape
homesign
iconic representations
iconicity
improvisation
inflection
interaction
Israeli Sign Language
Kata Kolok
Kufr Qassem Sign Language
language change
language emergence
language preference
language shift
lexical variation
mergence
Mexico
n/a
negation
Nicaraguan Sign Language
non-manual markers
non-manuals
object descriptions
phonology
pidgin
pronouns
sign language
sign language emergence
sign language evolution
signing space
silent gesture
social structure
socialization
turn-taking
Tzotzil
verb agreement
village sign language
wh-questions
word order
Yucatec Maya Sign Language
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