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1 online resource (140 pages). |
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Benjamins Current Topics,
1874-0081 ;
Volume 70
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Benjamins current topics ; Volume 70.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Speech and gesture -- Study and teaching.
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Speech and gesture. |
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Sign language -- Study and teaching.
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Sign language -- Study and teaching. |
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Sign language. |
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Gesture -- Psychological aspects.
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Gesture -- Psychological aspects. |
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Gesture. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun phrase.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun phrase. |
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Interpersonal communication -- Psychological aspects.
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Interpersonal communication -- Psychological aspects. |
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Interpersonal communication. |
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Anthropological linguistics.
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Anthropological linguistics. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Haviland, John Beard, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Where do nouns come from? Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015] 9789027242587 (DLC) 2015008362 (OCoLC)904460027 |
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9789027268501 (pdf) |
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9027268509 (pdf) |
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9027242585 |
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9789027242587 |
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9789027242587 (hardback) |
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