The Resilience of Structure Built around the Predicate: Homesign Gesture Systems in Turkish and American Deaf Children

Autor/inn/en	Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Namboodiripad, Savithry; Mylander, Carolyn; Özyürek, Asli; Sancar, Burcu
Titel	The Resilience of Structure Built around the Predicate: Homesign Gesture Systems in Turkish and American Deaf Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 16 (2015) 1, S.55-80 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2013.803970
Schlagwörter	Resilience (Psychology); Sign Language; Verbs; Deafness; Nonverbal Communication; Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Form Classes (Languages); Language Patterns; Hearing (Physiology); Parent Child Relationship; Cognitive Mapping; Foreign Countries; Observation; Mothers; Coding; Reliability; Illinois; Pennsylvania; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gebärdensprache; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Structural analysis; Strukturanalyse; Analytischer Sprachbau; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; Gehör; Hören; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Beobachtung; Mother; Mutter; Codierung; Programmierung; Reliabilität; Türkei
Abstract	Deaf children whose hearing losses prevent them from accessing spoken language and whose hearing parents have not exposed them to sign language develop gesture systems, called "homesigns", which have many of the properties of natural language--the so-called resilient properties of language. We explored the resilience of structure built around the predicate--in particular, how manner and path are mapped onto the verb-in homesign systems developed by deaf children in Turkey and the United States. We also asked whether the Turkish homesigners exhibit sentence-level structures previously identified as resilient in American and Chinese homesigners. We found that the Turkish and American deaf children used not only the same production probability and ordering patterns to indicate who does what to whom, but also used the same segmentation and conflation patterns to package manner and path. The gestures that the hearing parents produced did not, for the most part, display the patterns found in the children's gestures. Although cospeech gesture may provide the building blocks for homesign, it does not provide the blueprint for these resilient properties of language. (As Provided).
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