Sign Language & Linguistics
Volume 15, Issue 2, 2012
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The visual-gestural modality and beyond: Mouthings as a language contact phenomenon in Irish Sign Language
- Author: Susanne Mohr
- pp.: 185–211 (27)
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- The article analyses cross-modal language contact between signed and spoken languages with special reference to the Irish Deaf community. This is exemplified by an examination of the phenomenon of mouthings in Irish Sign Language including its origins, dynamics, forms and functions. Initially, the setup of language contact with respect to Deaf communities and the sociolinguistics of the Irish Deaf community are discussed, and in the main part the article analyses elicited data in the form of personal stories by twelve native signers from the Republic of Ireland. The major aim of the investigation is to determine whether mouthings are yet fully integrated into ISL and if so, whether this integration has ultimately caused language change. Finally, it is asked whether traditional sociolinguistic frameworks of language contact can actually tackle issues of cross-modal language contact occurring between signed and spoken languages.
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A review of sign language acquisition studies as the basis for informed decisions for sign language test adaptation: The case of the German Sign Language Receptive Skills Test
- Author: Tobias Haug
- pp.: 213–239 (27)
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- Developing or adapting tests of sign language development requires knowledge about the emergence and mastery of the linguistic structures that should be represented in a test. As the structures and acquisition of many sign languages are rather under-documented, developing or adapting a test for a specific sign language poses a great challenge for test developers, especially with respect to the test’s reliability and validity.Deutsche GebärdenspracheThis paper presents this review of the most recent acquisition studies of the linguistic structures mentioned above and represented in the BSL test. The main focus is on studies that covered the age range of 4 to 8 year-olds, the age group of the adapted DGS test. The argument will be made that — considering the current state of research for many sign languages — these acquisition studies from a variety of sign languages can serve as the basis for making informed decisions for test development and adaptation (for example, deciding which items should be represented in a sign language test), but only together with cross-linguistic and language specific studies.
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Author’s Preface
- Author: Susan Fischer
- pp.: 241–241 (1)
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Nominal markers in ASL
- Authors: Susan Fischer, and Robert Johnson
- pp.: 243–250 (8)
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Author’s Afterword
- Author: Susan Fischer
- pp.: 251–252 (2)
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Commentary on Fischer & Johnson (1982)
- Author: Elena Koulidobrova
- pp.: 253–258 (6)
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Parallelism revisited: The nature of the null argument in ASL as compared to the Romance-style pro
- Author: Elena Koulidobrova
- pp.: 259–270 (12)
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- Previous research has argued that the null argument surfacing in ASL is comparable to its Spanish counterpart — agreement licensed pro (e.g. Rizzi 1986). This analysis has been applied to both subjects and objects of either all verb classes (Bahan et al. 2000) or agreeing verbs only (Lillo-Martin 1991). In this squib, I demonstrate that the nature of both the null subject and the null object in ASL does not neatly parallel that of Spanish, taken here to be a representative of consistent null subject languages (Biberauer et al. 2010).
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Rachel Channon and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), Formational Units in Sign Languages.
- Author: Leah C. Geer
- pp.: 271–276 (6)
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