Carla L. Hudson Kam
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carla L. Hudson Kam is involved.
Articles
2021 Chapter 13. Adult learners’ (non-) acquisition of speaker-specific variation Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan, Ghimenton, Anna, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), pp. 295–316 | Chapter
This study is concerned with understanding how learners acquire sociolinguistic variation. It examines the possibility that learners gain entry into socially-conditioned variation by first associating patterns with particular speakers. Adult participants were exposed to a miniature artificial… read more
2020 Measuring lexical and structural conventionalization in young sign languages Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Wendy Sandler, Marie Coppola and Rose Stamp (eds.), pp. 208–232 | Article
Compounding, as a nearly universal word-formation process that is very useful in emerging languages, might be expected to conventionalize early in a language’s history. However, a recent study focusing on novel compounding in ISL and ABSL found that this may not be the case, and moreover, that… read more
2005 Where have all the children gone? Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:2, pp. 345–351 | Miscellaneous