Abrupt grammatical reorganization of an emergent sign language: The expression of motion in Zinacantec Family Homesign
Abrupt grammatical reorganization of an emergent sign language: The expression of motion in Zinacantec Family Homesign
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新兴手语的突然语法重组：Zinacantec Family Homesign 中的运动表达
DOI：
10.1075/dia.22039.ger
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发表时间：
2023
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0.7
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German, Austin
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作者：
German, Austin
本研究追溯了Zinacantec家族的家庭标志（“Z标志”）中离散组合结构的发展， 手语：由墨西哥的几个聋哑兄弟姐妹（哈维兰）从20世纪70年代开始发展的一种手语 2020 b），注重运动的表达。结果表明，第一个签名者，谁产生了homesign系统 在不访问语言模型的情况下，整体地表示运动事件。后来出生的签名者，谁获得了这个homesign系统 从婴儿期开始，将运动事件的分量分布在离散符号的序列上。此外，出生较晚的签名者表现出 形式-意义映射的规则性更强，发音效率更高。重要的是，这些变化是突然发生的 在第一个和第二个出生的签名者之间，而不是在签名者之间递增。这项研究扩展了以前的发现， 巴布亚新几内亚手语（Senghas et al. 2004年，一个小得多的社会群体 规模，这表明文化传播和语言习得的平行过程推动语言的出现， 无论社区大小。
This study traces the development of discrete, combinatorial structure in Zinacantec Family Homesign (‘Z Sign’), a sign language developed since the 1970s by several deaf siblings in Mexico (Haviland 2020b), focusing on the expression of motion. The results reveal that the first signer, who generated a homesign system without access to language models, represents motion events holistically. Later-born signers, who acquired this homesign system from infancy, distribute the components of motion events over sequences of discrete signs. Furthermore, later-born signers exhibit greater regularity of form-meaning mappings and increased articulatory efficiency. Importantly, these changes occur abruptly between the first- and second-born signers, rather than incrementally across signers. This study extends previous findings for Nicaraguan Sign Language (Senghas et al. 2004) to a social group of a much smaller scale, suggesting that the parallel processes of cultural transmission and language acquisition drive language emergence, regardless of community size.