Structure and acquisition of verbs of motion and location in ASL
Año:
1982
Editorial:
San Diego: University of California, 1982
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Temas
Lingüística » Lingüística de otras Lenguas de Signos
Detalles
Previous investigators have suggested that verbs of motion and location in American Sign Language (ASL) are strikingly different from words in spoken languages. In spoken languages, words are typically composed of components (morphemes), each of which is discretely different from the others. In contrast, they claim, verbs of motion and location in American Sign Language are "mimetic", globally imitating real-world movement and spatial relations. On this view, certain "words" in ASL are wholistic and analogue in form, not componential and discrete. If this claim were correct, it would suggest that ASL was strikingly different from any spoken language, and therefore that modality was a significant contributor to language structure.