Dissertation abstracts
How social structure affects the persistence and features of sign languages
Article outline
- 1.Context of the thesis
- 2.Studies 1 & 2: Models of sign language persistence (Chapters 2 & 3)
- 3.Studies 3 & 4: A lexical variation study of Kata Kolok (Chapters 4 & 5)
- 4.Study 5: A model of lexical variation and shared context (Chapter 6)
- 5.Main findings
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