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Spoken and Sign Language Emergence: A Comparison.
- Source :
- Languages; Sep2022, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p184-N.PAG, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- A comparison of emerging signed languages and creole languages provides evidence that, when language is emerging, it prioritizes marking the novelty of information; is readily recursive; favors the manner of action (aspect) over the time of action (tense); develops inflection readily only in a visual, as opposed to aural, mode; and develops derivational opacity only as the result of drift over long periods of time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SIGN language
CREOLE dialects
TENSE (Grammar)
ASPECT (Grammar)
OPACITY (Linguistics)
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2226471X
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Languages
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159350199
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7030184