Transmission of sign languages in the Nordic countries

Bergman, Brita; Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511712203.005

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“…The earliest example of the Swedish MA in our sample (Swedish 1866) is unique, with a long edge separating it from the centre of the middle graph in figure 4. Bergman & Engberg-Pedersen [20] suggest that Per Aron Borg, the founder of the first school for the deaf in Stockholm in 1809, though aware of de l'Épée's work in the Paris Institute, may not have been familiar with the MA in use in France when he created the Swedish MA. However, there are similarities between the Swedish MA from 1866 and MAs used in France and other parts of Europe, such as in handshapes representing 〈c〉, 〈f〉, 〈k〉, 〈l〉, 〈m〉, 〈n〉, 〈o〉, 〈u〉 and 〈v〉.…”

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Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages

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2020

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The evolution of spoken languages has been studied since the mid-nineteenth century using traditional historical comparative methods and, more recently, computational phylogenetic methods. By contrast, evolutionary processes resulting in the diversity of contemporary sign languages (SLs) have received much less attention, and scholars have been largely unsuccessful in grouping SLs into monophyletic language families using traditional methods. To date, no published studies have attempted to use language data to infer relationships among SLs on a large scale. Here, we report the results of a phylogenetic analysis of 40 contemporary and 36 historical SL manual alphabets coded for morphological similarity. Our results support grouping SLs in the sample into six main European lineages, with three larger groups of Austrian, British and French origin, as well as three smaller groups centring around Russian, Spanish and Swedish. The British and Swedish lineages support current knowledge of relationships among SLs based on extra-linguistic historical sources. With respect to other lineages, our results diverge from current hypotheses by indicating (i) independent evolution of Austrian, French and Spanish from Spanish sources; (ii) an internal Danish subgroup within the Austrian lineage; and (iii) evolution of Russian from Austrian sources.

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Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages

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Grimm²,

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2020

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“…To this end, we add data from a set of four new sign languages to the sample, in addition to RSL: Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT), German Sign Language (DGS), Finnish Sign Language (FinSL), and Swedish Sign Language (SSL). The last two are known to be historically related (Bergman and Engberg-Pedersen, 2010).³ NGT and RSL have both been claimed to be related to Old French Sign Language, but at least for RSL these claims have been debated (Bickford, 2005). No claims of relatedness that we know of have been reported for the other sign languages.…”

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Transitivity prominence within and across modalities

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We investigate transitivity prominence of verbs across signed and spoken languages, based on data from both valency dictionaries and corpora. Our methodology relies on the assumption that dictionary data and corpus-based measures of transitivity are comparable, and we find evidence in support of this through the direct comparison of these two types of data across several spoken languages. For the signed modality, we measure the transitivity prominence of verbs in five sign languages based on corpus data and compare the results to the transitivity prominence hierarchy for spoken languages reported in Haspelmath (2015). For each sign language, we create a hierarchy for 12 verb meanings based on the proportion of overt direct objects per verb meaning. We use these hierarchies to calculate correlations between languages – both signed and spoken – and find positive correlations between transitivity hierarchies. Additional findings of this study include the observation that locative arguments seem to behave differently than direct objects judging by our measures of transitivity, and that relatedness among sign languages does not straightforwardly imply similarity in transitivity hierarchies. We conclude that our findings provide support for a modality-independent, semantic basis of transitivity.

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“…Sprogene i gruppen Deaf sign language er opstået rundt omkring i verden hvor døve er kommet sammen i tilstraekkeligt store grupper (Meir et al 2010), i de industrialiserede lande hyppigst i forbindelse med oprettelsen af døveskoler som i Danmark i 1807 (Bergman & Engberg-Pedersen 2010). Men der findes også tegnsprog som er opstået i områder med en stabil befolkning med udbredt arvelig døvhed.…”

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Tilegnelse af fortællerperspektiv og referentperspektiv i dansk tegnsprog: introduktion af en ny referent

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Transmission of sign languages in the Nordic countries

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Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages

Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages

Transitivity prominence within and across modalities

Tilegnelse af fortællerperspektiv og referentperspektiv i dansk tegnsprog: introduktion af en ny referent

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