Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Meier, Richard P.

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Produktbeschreibung

The realisation that signed languages are true languages is one of the great discoveries of linguistic research. The work of many sign language researchers has revealed deep similarities between signed and spoken languages in their structure, acquisition and processing, as well as differences, arising from the differing articulatory and perceptual constraints under which signed languages are used and learned. This book provides a cross-linguistic examination of the properties of many signed languages, including detailed case studies of Hong Kong, British, Mexican and German sign languages. The contributions to this volume, by some of the most prominent researchers in the field, focus on a single question: to what extent is linguistic structure influenced by the modality of language? Their answers offer particular insights into the factors that shape the nature of language and contribute to our understanding of why languages are organised as they are.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511007873
• Artikelnr.: 38184238

Autorenporträt

RICHARD P. MEIER is Professor of Linguistics and Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why different, why the same? Explaining effects and non-effects of
modality upon linguistic structure in sign and speech Richard P. Meier;
Part I. Phonological Structure in Signed Languages: 2. Modality differences
in sign language phonology and morphophonemics Diane Brentari; 3. Beads on
a string? Representations of repetition in spoken and signed languages
Rachel Channon; 4. Psycholinguistic investigations of phonological
structure in American Sign Language David P. Corina and Ursula C.
Hildebrandt; 5. Modality-dependent aspects of sign language production:
evidence from slips of the hands and their repairs in German Sign Language
Annette Hohenberger, Daniela Happ and Helen Leuninger; 6. The role of
manually coded English in language development of deaf children Samuel J.
Supalla and Cecile McKee; Part II. Gesture and Iconicity in Sign and
Speech: 7. A modality-free notion of gesture and how it can help us with
the morpheme vs. gesture question in sign language linguistics (or at least
give us some criteria to work with) Arika Okrent; 8. Gesture as the
substrate in the process of ASL grammaticization Terry Janzen and Barbara
Shaffer; 9. A cross-linguistic examination of the lexicons of four signed
languages Anne-Marie Currie, Richard P. Meier and Keith Walters; Part III.
Syntax in Sign: Few or No Effects of Modality: 10. Where are all the
modality effects? Diane Lillo-Martin; 11. Applying morphosyntactic and
phonological readjustment rules in natural language negation Roland Pfau;
12. Nominal expressions in Hong Kong Sign Language: does modality make a
difference? Gladys Tang and Felix Sze; Part IV. Using Space and Describing
Space: 13. Pronominal reference in signed and spoken language: are
grammatical categories modality-dependent? Susan Lloyd McBurney; 14. Is
verb agreement the same cross-modally? Christian Rathmann and Gaurav
Mathur; 15. The effects of modality on spatial language: how signers and
speakers talk about space Karen Emmorey; 16. The effects of modality on BSL
development in an exceptional learner Gary Morgan, Neil Smith, Ianthi
Tsimpli and Bencie Woll; 17. Deictic points in the visual/gestural and
tactile/gestural modalities David Quinto-Pozos.