Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas

Guen, Olivier Le; Safar, Josefina; Coppola, Marie

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“…These include studies of question particles (Zeshan, 2013b); interrogatives (Zeshan, 2004;Aboh et al, 2005); formation of kinship terms, numerals, and color terms (Wilkinson, 2009;; word classes and classification criteria (Schwager and Zeshan, 2008); possessives and existential constructions (Chen Pichler et al, 2008;Perniss and Zeshan, 2008); numeral incorporation (Fuentes et al, 2010); relative clauses (Branchini, 2014;Wilbur, 2017); expression of semantic roles and locatives (Boyes Braem et al, 1990); object marking (Börstell, 2017); the distribution of negative markers (Zeshan, 2013a;; irregular negatives (Zeshan, 2013a); coordination and subordination (Tang and Lau, 2012); prosodic cues (Tang et al, 2010); and classifier constructions (Aronoff et al, 2003). There are typological handbooks detailing several linguistic phenomena or short grammatical descriptions of several signed languages (Fischer and Gong, 2010;Pfau et al, 2012;Velupillai, 2012;Zeshan and Palfreyman, 2017;Guen et al, 2020) and some signed languages have also been individually examined from a typological perspective, including Turkish Sign Language (Zeshan, 2006), Indo-Pakistani Sign Language (Zeshan, 2003), Sign Language of the Netherlands (Coerts, 1992;Oomen and Pfau, 2017), German Sign Language (Glück and Pfau, 1998), Italian Sign Language (Branchini and Donati, 2009), Japanese Sign Language (Sagara, 2014(Sagara, , 2016, and Inuit Sign Language (Schuit et al, 2011;Schuit, 2014Schuit, , 2015, among others.…”

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Nominal Word Order Typology in Signed Languages

Coons

2022

Front. Commun.

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Although spoken language nominal typology has been subject to much scrutiny, research on signed language nominal word order typology is still a burgeoning field. Yet, the structure of signed languages has important implications for the understanding of language as a human faculty, in addition to the types of universals that may exist across the world’s languages and the influence of language modality on linguistic structure. This study examines the order of nouns and attributive modifiers (adjectives, numerals, demonstratives, quantifiers, genitives, and relative clauses) in 41 signed languages, which span national and village signed languages from various lineages and geographic regions. Despite previous typological research on clausal phenomena indicating that the clausal structure of signed languages differs systematically from spoken languages (Napoli and Sutton-Spence, 2014, among others), the results of this survey indicate that signed language nominal word order typology is strikingly similar to spoken languages in several ways: 1) the most common word orders in spoken languages are also common in signed languages, 2) the uncommon word orders in spoken languages are also uncommon in signed languages, but are attested, unlike uncommon major constituent orders, and 3) the relative ranking of word order strategies, particularly relative clauses, is similar across signed and spoken languages.

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Section: Signed and Spoken Language Typology Previous Research On Typology Of Signed Languagesmentioning

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Nominal Word Order Typology in Signed Languages

Coons

2022

Front. Commun.

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“…Alguns dados são ainda comparados com os da Língua de Sinais Americana (ASL na sigla em inglês). Coppola (2020) Apesar de não contarem com esboços gramaticais, gramáticas pedagógicas ou gramática de referência, as quatro línguas de sinais apresentadas nos parágrafos acima 10 Tradução livre do original: "It seems, then, that several factors drive a language towards more conventionalization: the size of the community, its homogeneity/heterogeneity, the age of the language, and the functions and domains in which the language is used. Another factor that should be taken into consideration is the social status of the language."…”

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“…Os estudos de Meir e Sander (2019), Coppola (2020) e Ergin et al (Manuscrito) apontam para essa interação entre variação e convencionalização mesmo em diferentes níveis de análise, sem, no entanto, esmiuçar teoricamente e conceitualmente que processos são esses. O arcabouço teórico oferecido por Schmid (2020Schmid ( , 2017aSchmid ( , 2017bSchmid ( , 2015 pode contribuir para uma fundamentação teoricamente condizente com os fenômenos observados em línguas de sinais em pleno processo de convencionalização (e por que não, de entrincheiramento?).…”

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“…Essa juventude das línguas é apontada como uma das causas da pouca estabilidade gramatical ou lexical verificada nelas, ensejando um debate sobre qual tipo de instrumentos linguísticos seriam válidos para essas línguas particulares, encaradas ainda como línguas ameaçadas (BICKFORD; MCKAY-CODY, 2018) frente as língua de sinais nacionais já institucionalizadas. Alguns estudos começam a se debruçar sobre os processos de convencionalização de sinais e estruturas gramaticais das línguas de sinais emergentes (OLIVEIRA, 2021;COPPOLA, 2020). Assunto da seção seguinte.…”

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Por que escrever gramáticas de línguas de sinais emergentes

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Rodrigues³

2022

Dom. Ling.

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Discutimos neste artigo as concepções de gramatização de línguas de sinais emergentes no Brasil em relação com a de línguas de sinais institucionalizadas, a Libras. Tomamos o caso de algumas línguas de sinais emergentes e o debate sobre variação e convencionalização em línguas ditas jovens e em línguas de sinais mais consolidadas. Aplicamos para este estudo uma reflexão sobre os procedimentos de descrição, documentação e manutenção linguística sugeridos na produção de gramáticas de referência de línguas sinalizadas. Apresentamos argumentos para o refinamento teórico do conceito de convencionalização a partir do Modelo E-C de Schmid (2020). Como resultados, demonstramos que a gramatização de línguas de sinais emergentes em relação com a gramatização de línguas de sinais institucionalizadas diferencia-se muito mais pelos seus aspectos glotopolíticos e ideológicos do que propriamente linguísticos.

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“…We focused on a comparative analysis of role-taking constructions in two sociolinguistically diverse SLs: Yucatec Maya SL (YMSL), used by several generations of signers including hearing signers in Yucatán, Mexico (a.o. Le Guen, 2012;Safar, 2019;Le Guen et al, 2020b), and Soure SL, which is a combination of former homesigns now in the process of social integration, used mostly by deaf signers on Marajó Island, Northeast Brazil. Soure SL is a very little studied SL, with the only existing studies to date being: Martinod (2013Martinod ( , 2019Martinod ( , 2022, Carliez and Fusellier (2016), , Martinod (2017), andMartinod et al (2020a,b).…”

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Role-taking in two micro-community sign languages: Phylogenetic insights

Martinod

2022

Front. Commun.

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This study aimed to examine the use of role-taking constructions in two micro-community sign languages (SLs): Yucatec Maya SL (YMSL), and Soure SL. Various role-taking types were quantified and changes in gaze direction were annotated on data regarding these two SLs. The results showed (i) a greater diversity of role-taking produced in YMSL, including complex role-taking (i.e., multiple perspectives or role-taking produced alongside lexical units), and (ii) changes in gaze direction before and after the production of role-taking constructions in both SLs. First, this suggests a phylogenetic development between the two SLs partly observable from the study of role-taking through the conceptual lens of bifurcation of the signer's intent. More broadly, an analysis of the phylogenesis of SLs would benefit from this kind of examination using analytical concepts relevant to SLs. Second, results seem to indicate that the phylogenesis of SLs would share similarities with the ontogenesis of SLs. Indeed, the less socially integrated and analyzed SL (Soure SL) displayed a less advanced degree of bifurcation since few complex role-taking constructions were observed. This is in line with the way these structures are acquired late by SL learners. Further studies on other micro-community SLs would be needed to validate the results of this study.

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Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas

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Nominal Word Order Typology in Signed Languages

Nominal Word Order Typology in Signed Languages

Por que escrever gramáticas de línguas de sinais emergentes

Role-taking in two micro-community sign languages: Phylogenetic insights

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