The Role of Visual Space in Sign Language Development

Yau, Shun-chiu

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“…Yau ( 2008 ) makes this claim and our survey confirms it. We offer a typical example from Finnish Sign Language (Jantunen, 2008 , p. 99):…”

Section: Generalizations In the Datasupporting

confidence: 75%

“…In such examples as in classifier constructions, we find “mappings of envisioned mental spaces onto signing space” (Taub, 2001, p. 163). If the addressee is to make sense out of the phonological shape of these predicates, including the direction of path movement, the relevant arguments should already be present in the discourse or be introduced within the sentence before the V (for a similar claim, but with more conditions on it, see Yau, 2008, pp. 152–153).…”

Section: Order and The Visual Modalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Minoura suggests the order in such examples is an influence from written Malagasy. (For remarks on the influence of written language order on sign order, see Fischer, 1975 ; Bogaerde and Mills, 1994 ; De Langhe et al, 2004 ; Milkovic et al, 2007 ; Yau, 2008 ; Wojda, 2010 , who argues that this factor makes it impossible to determine the unmarked word order of Polish Sign Language.)…”

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Order of the major constituents in sign languages: implications for all language

2014

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A survey of reports of sign order from 42 sign languages leads to a handful of generalizations. Two accounts emerge, one amodal and the other modal. We argue that universal pressures are at work with respect to some generalizations, but that pressure from the visual modality is at work with respect to others. Together, these pressures conspire to make all sign languages order their major constituents SOV or SVO. This study leads us to the conclusion that the order of S with regard to verb phrase (VP) may be driven by sensorimotor system concerns that feed universal grammar.

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“…Yau ( 2008 ) makes this claim and our survey confirms it. We offer a typical example from Finnish Sign Language (Jantunen, 2008 , p. 99):…”

Section: Generalizations In the Datasupporting

confidence: 75%

Section: Order and The Visual Modalitymentioning

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Order of the major constituents in sign languages: implications for all language

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“…Agreement/directionality appears to affect major constituent order in signed languages, with plain and reversible verbs 1 favoring SVO, but verbs with agreement or nonreversible arguments often showing SOV or other word orders (Napoli and Sutton-Spence, 2014). SOV is also argued to be grammatical in all signed languages and objects are immediately adjacent to verbs 2 (Yau, 2008;Napoli and Sutton-Spence, 2014). While the prevalence of SOV and SVO in signed languages, as well as the adjacency of verbs and objects, is predicted via universal pressures on the structure of language and the internal structure of the verb phrase, the preference for SVO in reversible sentences is not; instead modality effects are responsible for some of the patterns observed in major constituent order across signed languages (Napoli and Sutton-Spence, 2014).…”

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Nominal Word Order Typology in Signed Languages

Coons

2022

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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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“…cognitive linguistics cognitive linguistics 15,72,106,108,117,120,127,273,297,309,313,384,492,508,516,632,897,899,915, 940 cohesion 506, 940 collective noun see:…”

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A Bibliography of Sign Languages, 2008-2017

Aarssen¹,

Genis²,

Veeken³

2018

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The production of this book has been generously sponsored by the Stichting Bibliographie Linguistique, Leiden.This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC-ND License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited.Cover illustration: A group of young people using sign language in a discussion. Photo courtesy of Andries van Niekerk, National Institute for the Deaf, South Africa, http://www.nid.org.za. Andries van Niekerk is currently working on a Dictionary of South African Sign Language.

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The Role of Visual Space in Sign Language Development

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References 23 publications

Order of the major constituents in sign languages: implications for all language

Order of the major constituents in sign languages: implications for all language

Nominal Word Order Typology in Signed Languages

A Bibliography of Sign Languages, 2008-2017

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