Brentari Diane, Coppola Marie, Cho Pyeong Whan, Senghas Ann
University of Chicago.
University of Connecticut.
Lang Acquis. 2017;24(4):283-306. doi: 10.1080/10489223.2016.1187614. Epub 2016 Oct 3.
In this paper two dimensions of are analyzed as potential building blocks of phonological contrast- and . We ask whether sign language patterns are elaborations of those seen in the gestures produced by hearing people without speech (pantomime) or a more radical re-organization of them. Data from adults and children are analyzed to address issues of cross-linguistic variation, emergence, and acquisition. Study 1 addresses these issues in adult signers and gesturers from the United States, Italy, China, and Nicaragua. Study 2 addresses these issues in child and adult groups (signers and gesturers) from the United States, Italy, and Nicaragua. We argue that handshape undergoes a fairly radical reorganization, including loss and reorganization of iconicity and feature redistribution, as phonologization takes place in both of these dimensions. Moreover, while the patterns investigated here are not evidence of duality of patterning, we conclude that they are indeed phonological, and that they appear earlier than related morphosyntactic patterns that use the same types of handshape.
在本文中，[具体内容]的两个维度被分析为音位对立的潜在构建模块。我们探讨手语模式是听力正常但无言语的人所产生的手势（哑剧手势）中所见模式的细化，还是对这些模式更彻底的重新组织。分析了来自成人和儿童的数据，以解决跨语言变异、出现和习得的问题。研究1在美国、意大利、中国和尼加拉瓜的成年手语使用者和手势者中探讨这些问题。研究2在美国、意大利和尼加拉瓜的儿童和成人组（手语使用者和手势者）中探讨这些问题。我们认为，在手形发生音系化的这两个维度中，手形会经历相当彻底的重新组织，包括象似性的丧失与重新组织以及特征重新分布。此外，虽然这里所研究的模式并非双重模式的证据，但我们得出结论，它们确实是音系性的，并且比使用相同类型手形的相关形态句法模式出现得更早。
