The ASL Lexicon
Año:
1998
Editorial:
Sign Language and Linguistics. Vol. 1 (1998) pp. 39-60
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Temas
Lingüística » Lingüística de otras Lenguas de Signos
Detalles
This paper explores a range of foreign vocabulary in American Sign Language and demonstrates that there are ways of accounting for them without undermining the fundamental independence of a natural sign language. Arguments are made for a unified lexicon in which Native and Foreign vocabulary are arranged schematically as extending from a core to a periphery with gradations of conformity to phonological constraints of ASL forms. At the conclusion of the paper there is a brief review of issues concerning the presence of foreign vocabulary in natural sign languages.