Iconicity And Verb Agreement

Author : Marloes Oomen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110742787

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Iconicity and Verb Agreement by Marloes Oomen Pdf

In many sign languages around the world, some verbs express grammatical agreement, while many others do not. Curiously, there is a remarkable degree of semantic overlap across sign languages between verbs that do and do not possess agreement properties. This book scrutinizes the interaction between semantic and morphosyntactic structure in verb constructions in German Sign Language (DGS). Naturalistic dialogues from the DGS Corpus form the primary data source. It is shown that certain semantic properties, also known to govern transitivity marking in spoken languages, are predictive of verb type in DGS, where systematic iconic mappings play a mediating role. The results enable the formulation of cross-linguistic predictions about the interplay between verb semantics and verb type in sign languages. An analysis of the morphosyntactic properties of different verb types leads up to the conclusion that even ‘plain’ verbs agree with their arguments, where iconicity again plays a crucial role. The findings motivate a unified syntactic analysis in terms of agreement of constructions with verbs of all types, thus offering a novel solution to the typological puzzle that supposedly only a subset of verbs agree in DGS and other sign languages.

Author : Sara Lenninger,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg,Elżbieta Tabakowska
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257574

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Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems by Sara Lenninger,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg,Elżbieta Tabakowska Pdf

This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different levels of iconicity, with special focus on Cognitive Semiotics. Exploring the ubiquity of iconicity in verbal, visual and gestural communication, these contributions discuss it from the point of view of human meaning-making, examined as a phenomenon that is experienced, embodied and often polysemiotic in nature.

Author : Marloes Oomen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110742848

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Iconicity and Verb Agreement by Marloes Oomen Pdf

In many sign languages around the world, some verbs express grammatical agreement, while many others do not. Curiously, there is a remarkable degree of semantic overlap across sign languages between verbs that do and do not possess agreement properties. This book scrutinizes the interaction between semantic and morphosyntactic structure in verb constructions in German Sign Language (DGS). Naturalistic dialogues from the DGS Corpus form the primary data source. It is shown that certain semantic properties, also known to govern transitivity marking in spoken languages, are predictive of verb type in DGS, where systematic iconic mappings play a mediating role. The results enable the formulation of cross-linguistic predictions about the interplay between verb semantics and verb type in sign languages. An analysis of the morphosyntactic properties of different verb types leads up to the conclusion that even ‘plain’ verbs agree with their arguments, where iconicity again plays a crucial role. The findings motivate a unified syntactic analysis in terms of agreement of constructions with verbs of all types, thus offering a novel solution to the typological puzzle that supposedly only a subset of verbs agree in DGS and other sign languages.

Author : Brenda Schick,Marc Marschark,Patricia Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0198039964

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Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children by Brenda Schick,Marc Marschark,Patricia Elizabeth Spencer Pdf

The use of sign language has a long history. Indeed, humans' first languages may have been expressed through sign. Sign languages have been found around the world, even in communities without access to formal education. In addition to serving as a primary means of communication for Deaf communities, sign languages have become one of hearing students' most popular choices for second-language study. Sign languages are now accepted as complex and complete languages that are the linguistic equals of spoken languages. Sign-language research is a relatively young field, having begun fewer than 50 years ago. Since then, interest in the field has blossomed and research has become much more rigorous as demand for empirically verifiable results have increased. In the same way that cross-linguistic research has led to a better understanding of how language affects development, cross-modal research has led to a better understanding of how language is acquired. It has also provided valuable evidence on the cognitive and social development of both deaf and hearing children, excellent theoretical insights into how the human brain acquires and structures sign and spoken languages, and important information on how to promote the development of deaf children. This volume brings together the leading scholars on the acquisition and development of sign languages to present the latest theory and research on these topics. They address theoretical as well as applied questions and provide cogent summaries of what is known about early gestural development, interactive processes adapted to visual communication, linguisic structures, modality effects, and semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic development in sign. Along with its companion volume, Advances in the Spoken Language Development of Deaf and Hard-of Hearing Children, this book will provide a deep and broad picture about what is known about deaf children's language development in a variety of situations and contexts. From this base of information, progress in research and its application will accelerate, and barriers to deaf children's full participation in the world around them will continue to be overcome.

Author : Roland Pfau,Markus Steinbach,Bencie Woll
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110261325

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Sign Language by Roland Pfau,Markus Steinbach,Bencie Woll Pdf

Sign language linguists show here that all questions relevant to the linguistic investigation of spoken languages can be asked about sign languages. Conversely, questions that sign language linguists consider - even if spoken language researchers have not asked them yet - should also be asked of spoken languages. The HSK handbook Sign Language aims to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sign language linguistics. It includes 44 chapters, written by leading researchers in the field, that address issues in language typology, sign language grammar, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and language documentation and transcription. Crucially, all topics are presented in a way that makes them accessible to linguists who are not familiar with sign language linguistics.

Author : John A. Goldsmith,Jason Riggle,Alan C. L. Yu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118798010

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The Handbook of Phonological Theory by John A. Goldsmith,Jason Riggle,Alan C. L. Yu Pdf

The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines. Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chapters Addresses the important questions in the field including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation, and assesses the findings and accomplishments in these domains Brings together a renowned and international contributor team Offers new and unique reflections on the advances in phonological theory since publication of the first edition in 1995 Along with the first edition, still in publication, it forms the most complete and current overview of the subject in print

Author : Gary Morgan,Bencie Woll
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027234728

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Directions in Sign Language Acquisition by Gary Morgan,Bencie Woll Pdf

This is the second volume in the series 'Trends in language acquisition research'. The unusual combination in one volume of reports on various different sign languages in acquisition makes this book quite unique.

Author : Dan Isaac Slobin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317768852

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The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition by Dan Isaac Slobin Pdf

An essential handbook for professionals and advanced students in the field. Volume 1 contains comprehensive studies on the acquisition of 15 different languages (from ASL to Samoan) -- written by top researchers on each topic. Volume 2 concentrates on theoretical issues, emphasizing current linguistic and psycholinguistic research. Unique in its approach toward individual languages and in its comparative perspective, this book is a hallmark of a rapidly growing area of interdisciplinary, international research.

Author : Dorothy Bishop,K. Mogford
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135064617

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Language Development In Exceptional Circumstances by Dorothy Bishop,K. Mogford Pdf

Ever since attempts were made to describe and explain normal language development, references to exceptional circumstances have been made. Variations in the conditions under which language is acquired can be regarded as natural experiments, which would not be feasible or ethical under normal circumstances. This can throw light on such questions as: *What language input is necessary for the child to learn language? *What is the relationship between cognition and language? *How independent are different components of language function? *Are there critical periods for language development? *Can we specify necessary and sufficient conditions for language impairment? This book covers a range of exceptional circumstances including: extreme deprivation, twinship, visual and auditory impairments, autism and focal brain damage? Written in a jargon-free style, and including a glossary of linguistic and medical terminology, the book assumes little specialist knowledge. This text is suitable for both students and practitioners in the fields of psycholinguistics, developmental and educational psychology, speech pathology, paediatrics and special education.

Author : Diane Brentari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107113473

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Sign Language Phonology by Diane Brentari Pdf

Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.

Author : Sarah F. Taub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139428224

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Language from the Body by Sarah F. Taub Pdf

What is the role of meaning in linguistic theory? Generative linguists have severely limited the influence of meaning, claiming that language is not affected by other cognitive processes and that semantics does not influence linguistic form. Conversely, cognitivist and functionalist linguists believe that meaning pervades and motivates all levels of linguistic structure. This dispute can be resolved conclusively by evidence from signed languages. Signed languages are full of iconic linguistic items: words, inflections, and even syntactic constructions with structural similarities between their physical form and their referents' form. Iconic items can have concrete meanings and also abstract meanings through conceptual metaphors. Language from the Body rebuts the generativist linguistic theories which separate form and meaning and asserts that iconicity can only be described in a cognitivist framework where meaning can influence form.

Author : Valentina Cuccio,Erin Wilkinson,Brigitte Garcia,Adam Schembri,Erin Moriarty,Sabina Fontana
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832505342

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Sign Language Research Sixty Years Later: Current and Future Perspectives by Valentina Cuccio,Erin Wilkinson,Brigitte Garcia,Adam Schembri,Erin Moriarty,Sabina Fontana Pdf

Author : Joan Stiles-Davis,Mark Kritchevsky,Ursula Bellugi
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317717584

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Spatial Cognition by Joan Stiles-Davis,Mark Kritchevsky,Ursula Bellugi Pdf

Looking at the ways humans perceive, interpret, remember, and interact with events occurring in space, this book focuses on two aspects of spatial cognition: How does spatial cognition develop? What is the relation between spatial cognition and the brain? This book offers a unique opportunity to share the combined efforts of scientists from varied disciplines, including cognitive and developmental psychology, neuropsychology, behavioral neurology, and neurobiology in the process of interacting and exchanging ideas. Based on a conference held at the Neuroscience Conference Center of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, this book explores current scientific trends seeking a biological basis for understanding the relationships among brain, mind, and behavior.

Author : John Haiman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228710

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Iconicity in Syntax by John Haiman Pdf

The papers in this volume all explore one kind of functional explanation for various aspects of linguistic form – iconicity: linguistic forms are frequently the way they are because they resemble the conceptual structures they are used to convey, or, linguistic structures resemble each other because the different conceptual domains they represent are thought of in the same way. The papers in Part I of this volume deal with aspects of motivation, the ways in which the linguistic form is a diagram of conceptual structure, and homologous with it in interesting ways. Most of the papers in Part II focus on isomorphism, the tendency to associate a single invariant meaning with each single invariant form. The papers in Part III deal with the apparent arbitrariness that arises from competing motivations.

Author : Susan Goldin-Meadow
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135433383

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The Resilience of Language by Susan Goldin-Meadow Pdf

Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'. The children are congenitally deaf and cannot learn the spoken language that surrounds them. In addition, they have not yet been exposed to sign language, either by their hearing parents or their oral schools. Nevertheless, the children use their hands to communicate - they gesture - and those gestures take on many of the forms and functions of language. The properties of language that we find in the deaf children's gestures are just those properties that do not need to be handed down from generation to generation, but can be reinvented by a child de novo - the resilient properties of language. This book suggests that all children, deaf or hearing, come to language-learning ready to develop precisely these language properties. In this way, studies of gesture creation in deaf children can show us the way that children themselves have a large hand in shaping how language is learned.