de Quadros Ronice Müller, Lillo-Martin Diane
Departamento de Libras, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, R. Eng. Agronômico Andrei Cristian Ferreira s/n, Trindade, Florianópolis SC 88040-900, Brazil.
Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, 365 Fairfield Way, Storrs, CT 06269-1145, USA.
Languages (Basel). 2018 Sep;3(3). doi: 10.3390/languages3030032. Epub 2018 Aug 10.
This paper presents an analysis of heritage signers: bimodal bilinguals, who are adult hearing children of Deaf parents who acquired sign language at home with their parents and the spoken language from the surrounding community. Analyzing heritage language with bimodal bilinguals who possess pairs of languages in different modalities provides a new kind of evidence for understanding the heritage language phenomenon as well as for theoretical issues regarding human language. Language production data were collected from four Brazilian bimodal bilinguals separately in both sign and speech, as well as from monolingual comparison Deaf signers and hearing speakers. The data were subsequently analyzed for various grammatical components. As with other types of heritage speakers, we observed a great degree of individual variation in the sign (heritage) language of balanced participants who patterned similarly to the monolingual signers, compared to those whose use of sign language differed greatly from monolinguals. One participant showed some weaknesses in the second (spoken) language. We approach the variation in language fluency in the two languages by considering the different contexts of language development and continuing use.
他们是双亲皆为聋人的成年听力正常儿童，在家中与父母习得手语，并从周围社区习得口语。对同时掌握不同模态语言的双语手语使用者的语言传承进行分析，为理解语言传承现象以及人类语言的理论问题提供了一种新的证据。分别从四名巴西双语手语使用者那里收集了手语和口语的语言产出数据，同时还收集了单语聋人手语使用者和听力正常的口语使用者的相关数据。随后对这些数据的各种语法成分进行了分析。与其他类型的有语言传承者一样，我们观察到，与那些手语使用与单语者差异很大的参与者相比，在与单语手语使用者表现相似的平衡参与者的手语（传承）语言中，存在很大程度的个体差异。一名参与者在第二语言（口语）方面表现出一些弱点。我们通过考虑语言发展和持续使用的不同背景来探讨这两种语言的流利程度差异。
