| Description |
1 online resource (140 pages) |
| Series |
Benjamins Current Topics, 1874-0081 ; Volume 70 |
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Benjamins current topics ; Volume 70.
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| Contents |
Introduction: where does "where do nouns come from?" come from? / John B. Haviland -- The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages / Oksana Tkachman and Wendy Sandler -- Patterned iconicity in sign languages lexicons / Carol Padden, Irit Meir, So-One Hwang, Ryan Lepic, Sharon Seegers, and Tory Sampson -- The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language: specification, iconicity, and syntax / John B. Haviland -- How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign / Dea Hunsicker and Susan Goldin-Meadow |
| Summary |
All established languages, spoken or signed, make a distinction between nouns and verbs. Even a young sign language emerging within a family of deaf individuals has been found to mark the noun-verb distinction, and to use handshape type to do so. Here we ask whether handshape type is used to mark the noun-verb distinction in a gesture system invented by a deaf child who does not have access to a usable model of either spoken or signed language. The child produces homesigns that have linguistic structure, but receives from his hearing parents co-speech gestures that are structured differently f |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Speech and gesture -- Study and teaching
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Sign language -- Study and teaching
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Gesture -- Psychological aspects
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun phrase.
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Interpersonal communication -- Psychological aspects
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Anthropological linguistics.
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anthropological linguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Sign Language.
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Anthropological linguistics
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun phrase
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Interpersonal communication -- Psychological aspects
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Sign language -- Study and teaching
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Haviland, John Beard, editor.
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| LC no. |
2015011878 |
| ISBN |
9789027268501 |
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9027268509 |
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9027242585 |
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9789027242587 |
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