Where do nouns come from?

Where do nouns come from?

by Haviland, John Beard

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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 …

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  • Full title :Where do nouns come from? / edited by John B. Haviland, University of California, San Diego.

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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.

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  • Publication Date:2015

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  • Description:1 online resource (140 pages).

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  • ISBN:9789027268501, 9027268509, 9027242585, 9789027242587
  • oclc:ocn905668040
  • LC Classification:P117
  • Dewey Decimal:419

Table of 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.

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Subjects

Anthropological linguistics Communication interpersonnelle -- Aspec… Ethnolinguistique Gestes -- Aspect psychologique Gesture -- Psychological aspects Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun Grammar, Comparative and general -- Nou… Interpersonal communication -- Psycholo… Langage par signes -- Étude et enseigne… LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Sign Lan… Nom (Linguistique) Parole et gestes -- Étude et enseigneme… Sign language -- Study and teaching Speech and gesture -- Study and teaching

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Haviland, John Beard

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