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Sign Language and Linguistic Universals
Author | : Wendy Sandler,Diane Carolyn Lillo-Martin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2006-02-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521483956 |
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Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of spoken languages. In this pioneering and original study, Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin compare sign languages with spoken languages, in order to seek the universal properties they share. Drawing on general linguistic theory, they describe and analyze sign language structure, showing linguistic universals in the phonology, morphology, and syntax of sign language, while also revealing non-universal aspects of its structure that must be attributed to its physical transmission system. No prior background in sign language linguistics is assumed, and numerous pictures are provided to make descriptions of signs and facial expressions accessible to readers. Engaging and informative, Sign Language and Linguistic Universals will be invaluable to linguists, psychologists, and all those interested in sign languages, linguistic theory and the universal properties of human languages.
Sign Language and Linguistic Universals
Author | : Wendy Sandler,Diane Lillo-Martin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2006-02-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521482486 |
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Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of spoken languages. In this pioneering and original study, Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin compare sign languages with spoken languages, in order to seek the universal properties they share. Drawing on general linguistic theory, they describe and analyze sign language structure, showing linguistic universals in the phonology, morphology, and syntax of sign language, while also revealing non-universal aspects of its structure that must be attributed to its physical transmission system. No prior background in sign language linguistics is assumed, and numerous pictures are provided to make descriptions of signs and facial expressions accessible to readers. Engaging and informative, Sign Language and Linguistic Universals will be invaluable to linguists, psychologists, and all those interested in sign languages, linguistic theory and the universal properties of human languages.
Sign Language and Linguistic Universals
Author | : Wendy Sandler,Diane Lillo-Martin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2006-02-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521482488 |
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Sign languages are of great interest to linguists because, while they are produced by the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of spoken languages. Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin compare spoken languages with those that are signed, in order to seek universal properties of human languages. No prior background in sign language linguistics is assumed, and numerous pictures are provided to make descriptions accessible to readers.
Universal Grammar and American Sign Language
Author | : D.C. Lillo-Martin |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789401134682 |
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AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE American Sign Language (ASL) is the visual-gestural language used by most of the deaf community in the United States and parts of Canada. On the surface, this language (as all signed languages) seems radically different from the spoken languages which have been used to formulate theories of linguistic princi ples and parameters. However, the position taken in this book is that when the surface effects of modality are stripped away, ASL will be seen to follow many of the patterns proposed as universals for human language. If these theoretical constructs are meant to hold for language in general, then they should hold for natural human language in any modality; and ifASL is such a natural human language, then it too must be accounted for by any adequate theory of Universal Grammar. For this rea son, the study of ASL can be vital for proposed theories of Universal Grammar. Recent work in several theoretical frameworks of syntax as well as phonology have argued that indeed, ASL is such a lan guage. I will assume then, that principles of Universal Gram mar, and principles that derive from it, are applicable to ASL, and in fact that ASL can serve as one of the languages which test Universal Grammar. There is an important distinction to be drawn, however, be tween what is called here 'American Sign Language', and other forms of manual communication.
Linguistic Universals
Author | : Ricardo Mairal,Juana Gil |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2006-10-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781139459709 |
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The discovery of 'linguistic universals' - the properties that all languages have in common - is a fundamental goal of linguistic research. Linguists face the task of accounting for why languages, which apparently differ so greatly from one another on the surface, display striking similarities in their underlying structure. This volume brings together a team of leading experts to show how different linguistic theories have approached this challenge. Drawing on work from both formal and functional perspectives, it provides a comprehensive overview of the most notable work on linguistic universals - with chapters on syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology and typology - and explores a range of central issues, such as the relationship between linguistic universals and the language faculty, and what linguistic universals can tell us about our biological make-up and cognitive abilities. Clear and succinct, it will be invaluable to anyone seeking a greater understanding of the phenomenon that is human language.
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Author | : Bernard Comrie |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1989-07-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226114333 |
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Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar
Author | : Ian G. Roberts |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199573776 |
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''This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as universal grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. It will be a vital reference for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.''--
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Volume 1
Author | : Susan D. Fischer,Patricia Siple |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1990-11-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226251500 |
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Only recently has linguistic research recognized sign languages as legitimate human languages with properties analogous to those cataloged for French or Navajo, for example. There are many different sign languages, which can be analyzed on a variety of levels—phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics—in the same way as spoken languages. Yet the recognition that not all of the principles established for spoken languages hold for sign languages has made sign languages a crucial testing ground for linguistic theory. Edited by Susan Fischer and Patricia Siple, this collection is divided into four sections, reflecting the traditional core areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Although most of the contributions consider American Sign Language (ASL), five treat sign languages unrelated to ASL, offering valuable perspectives on sign universals. Since some of these languages or systems are only recently established, they provide a window onto the evolution and growth of sign languages.