The acquisition of verb agreement: Pointing out arguments for the linguistic status of agreement in signed languages
The acquisition of verb agreement: Pointing out arguments for the linguistic status of agreement in signed languages
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动词一致的获得:指出手语中一致的语言地位的论据
DOI:
10.1075/tilar.2.08mei
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发表时间:
2002
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影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
R. Meier
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作者:
R. Meier
Verb agreement is one of the most studied phenomena in linguistic research on the signed languages of the Deaf. Yet despite the close attention it has received, agreement remains one of the most controversial topics in the study of sign languages. Indeed the issue of whether agreement in signed languages is properly viewed as a linguistic rule is now a topic of lively debate. In this chapter, I first describe some properties of agreement in signed languages; in doing this, I sketch several arguments that suggest to me that agreement is indeed a part of the morphosyntax of signed languages. Then I turn to a review of the acquisition literature. The literature on the acquisition of agreement in mature signed languages and in emerging ones yields several arguments to suggest that agreement is part of the morphology of signed languages and is acquired as such by young signing children.