Cover not available
Abstract published In:
Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 26:1 (2023) ► pp.139–148
Dissertation abstracts

How social structure affects the persistence and features of sign languages

| University of Amsterdam
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
  • References
Published online: 21 February 2023
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00072.mud
References (20)
Aoki, Kenichi & Marcus Feldman
1991 Recessive hereditary deafness, assortative mating, and persistence of a sign language. Theoretical Population Biology 39(3). 358–372. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
de Vos, Connie
2011 Kata Kolok color terms and the emergence of lexical signs in rural signing communities. The Senses and Society 6(1). 68–76. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Gialluisi, Alessandro, Dan Dediu, Clyde Francks & Simon Fisher
2013 Persistence and transmission of recessive deafness and sign language: New insights from village sign languages. European Journal of Human Genetics 21(9). 894–896. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Kisch, Shifra
2008 “Deaf discourse”: The social construction of deafness in a Bedouin community. Medical Anthropology 27(3). 283–313. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Kusters, Annelies
2012 Adamorobe: A demographic, sociolinguistic and sociocultural profile. In Ulrike Zeshan & Connie de Vos (eds.), Sign languages in village communities: Anthropological and linguistic insights, 347–351. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
LeMaster, Barbara
1998 Sex differences in Irish Sign Language. In Jane H. Hill, P. J. Mistry & Lyle Campbell (eds.), The life of language, 67–86. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Lupyan, Gary & Rick Dale
2010 Language structure is partly determined by social structure. PLOS ONE 5(1). e8559. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Marsaja, I Gede
2008 Desa Kolok: A deaf village and its sign language in Bali, Indonesia. Nijmegen: Ishara Press.Google Scholar
Meir, Irit, Assaf Israel, Wendy Sandler, Carol Padden & Mark Aronoff
2012 The influence of community on language structure: Evidence from two young sign languages. Linguistic Variation 12(2). 247–291. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Nonaka, Angela
2012 Sociolinguistic sketch of Ban Khor and Ban Khor Sign Language. In Ulrike Zeshan & Connie de Vos (eds.), Sign languages in village communities: Anthropological and linguistic insights, 373–376. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Nyst, Victoria
2012 Shared sign languages. In Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach & Bencie Woll (eds.), Sign language: An international handbook, 552–574. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Panda, Sibaji
2012 Alipur and its sign language: A sociolinguistic and cultural profile. In Ulrike Zeshan & Connie de Vos (eds.), Sign languages in village communities: Anthropological and linguistic insights, 353–360. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Sandler, Wendy, Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir & Carol Padden
2011 The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 29(2). 503–543. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Sandler, Wendy, Irit Meir, Carol Padden & Mark Aronoff
2005 The emergence of grammar: Systematic structure in a new language. PNAS 1021. 2661–2665. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Stamp, Rose, Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon, Ramas Rentelis, Bencie Woll, & Kearsy Cormier
2014 Lexical variation and change in British Sign Language. PLOS ONE 9(4). e94053. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Thompson, Bill, Limor Raviv & Simon Kirby
2020 Complexity can be maintained in small populations: A model of lexical variability in emerging sign languages. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Tkachman, Oksana & Carla Hudson Kam
2020 Measuring lexical and structural conventionalization in young sign languages. Sign Language & Linguistics 23(1/2). 208–232. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Winata, Sunaryana, I Nyoman Arhya, Sukarti Moeljopawiro, John Hinnant, Yong Liang, Thomas Friedman & James Asher
1995 Congenital non-syndromal autosomal recessive deafness in Bengkala, an isolated Balinese village. Journal of Medical Genetics 32(5). 336–343. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Wray, Alison & George Grace
2007 The consequences of talking to strangers: Evolutionary corollaries of socio-cultural influences on linguistic form. Lingua 117(3). 543–578. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Zeshan, Ulrike & Connie de Vos
(eds.) 2012 Sign languages in village communities. Anthropological and linguistic insights. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. DOI logoGoogle Scholar