Acquisition du lieu d’articulation en langue des signes québécoise chez trois enfants sourds : étude de cas

Lavoie, Charlen; Villeneuve, Suzanne

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“…Gestures and signs evolved to use a smaller signing space and became more effortless and economical. This finding is concomitant with previous studies (Lavoie and Villeneuve, 2000;Takkinen, 2003) which have found that signers change from compact signing (e.g., movement of the shoulder) to extended signing (e.g., movement of the elbow). Signers of a new language may become gradually more efficient in the use of articulators reducing the production effort (Dachkovsky et al, 2018).…”

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Disentangling Pantomime From Early Sign in a New Sign Language: Window Into Language Evolution Research

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In this study, we aim to disentangle pantomime from early signs in a newly-born sign language: Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language. Our results show that within 2 years of their first contact with one another, a community of 100 participants interacting everyday was able to build a shared language. The growth of linguistic systematicity, which included a decrease in use of pantomime, reduction of the amplitude of signs and an increase in articulation economy, showcases a learning, and social interaction process that constitutes a continuum and not a cut-off system. The human cognitive system is endowed with mechanisms for symbolization that allow the process of arbitrariness to unfold and the expansion of linguistic complexity. Our study helps to clarify the role of pantomime in a new sign language and how this role might be linked with language itself, showing implications for language evolution research.

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Disentangling Pantomime From Early Sign in a New Sign Language: Window Into Language Evolution Research

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“…A comparable change has been observed in the use of different arm joints – studies on sign language acquisition have found that signers change from first using joints closer to the body (e.g., movement of the shoulder) to using joints further from the body (e.g., movement of the elbow) (Lavoie and Villeneuve, 1999; Takkinen, 2003), causing reduction in the overall size of the sign. This also resembles findings by Mineiro et al (2017), in which signing size decreased in the early stages of a new sign language.…”

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Constructing Complexity in a Young Sign Language

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A universally acknowledged, core property of language is its complexity, at each level of structure – sounds, words, phrases, clauses, utterances, and higher levels of discourse. How does this complexity originate and develop in a language? We cannot fully answer this question from spoken languages, since they are all thousands of years old or descended from old languages. However, sign languages of deaf communities can arise at any time and provide empirical data for testing hypotheses related to the emergence of language complexity. An added advantage of the signed modality is a correspondence between visible physical articulations and linguistic structures, providing a more transparent view of linguistic complexity and its emergence (Sandler, 2012). These essential characteristics of sign languages allow us to address the issue of emerging complexity by documenting the use of the body for linguistic purposes. We look at three types of discourse relations of increasing complexity motivated by research on spoken languages – additive, symmetric, and asymmetric (Mann and Thompson, 1988; Sanders et al., 1992). Each relation type can connect units at two different levels: within propositions (simpler) and across propositions (more complex).1 We hypothesized that these relations provide a measure for charting the time course of emergence of complexity, from simplest to most complex, in a new sign language. We test this hypothesis on Israeli Sign Language (ISL), a young language, some of whose earliest users are still available for recording. Taking advantage of the unique relation in sign languages between bodily articulations and linguistic form, we study fifteen ISL signers from three generations, and demonstrate that the predictions indeed hold. We also find that younger signers tend to converge on more systematic marking of relations, that they use fewer articulators for a given linguistic function than older signers, and that the form of articulations becomes reduced, as the language matures. Mapping discourse relations to the bodily expression of linguistic components across age groups reveals how simpler, less constrained, and more gesture-like expressions, become language.

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“…In spite of analysing sign language phonology on the feature level since the late 1980's (Sandler, 1989), and evidence that speaking children acquire features or even clusters of features rather than phonemes (Jakobson, 1968;Smith, 1973; for more recent overviews see Fikkert, 2007;Dresher, 2004), research on the acquisition of sign phonology predominately examines the three parameters handshape, movement, and location (Boyes-Braem, 1990;Cheek et al, 2001;Clibbens & Harris, 1993;Conlin, Mirus, Mauk & Meier, 2000;Karnopp, 2002;Lavoie & Villeneuve, 2000;Marentette & Mayberry, 2000;McIntire, 1977;Meier, 2006;Meier, Mauk, Cheek & Moreland, 2008;Morgan, Barrett-Jones & Stoneham, 2007;Siedlecki & Bonvillian, 1993;Takkinen, 1 For the purpose of this study, we use the term 'feature' to refer to the articulatory dimensions borrowed from Global Signbank, and more broadly, from the Dependency Model, e.g., 'handshape dominant hand', 'location' or 'movement direction'. Manifestations of these features such as circular or straight for 'movement shape' are referred to as feature values.…”

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Development of sign phonology in Kata Kolok

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J. Child Lang.

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Much like early speech, early signing is characterised by modifications. Sign language phonology has been analysed on the feature level since the 1980s, yet acquisition studies predominately examine handshape, location, and movement. This study is the first to analyse the acquisition of phonology in the sign language of a Balinese village with a vibrant signing community and applies the same feature analysis to adult and child data. We analyse longitudinal data of four deaf children from the Kata Kolok Child Signing Corpus. The form comparison of child productions and adult targets yields three main findings: i) handshape modifications are most frequent, echoing cross-linguistic patterns; ii) modification rates of other features differ from previous studies, possibly due to differences in methodology or KK’s phonology; iii) co-occurrence of modifications within a sign suggest feature interdependencies. We argue that nuanced approaches to child signing are necessary to understand the complexity of early signing.

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Acquisition du lieu d’articulation en langue des signes québécoise chez trois enfants sourds : étude de cas

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Disentangling Pantomime From Early Sign in a New Sign Language: Window Into Language Evolution Research

Disentangling Pantomime From Early Sign in a New Sign Language: Window Into Language Evolution Research

Constructing Complexity in a Young Sign Language

Development of sign phonology in Kata Kolok

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