Cover not available

Article published In: Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 17:2 (2014) ► pp.241–250

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
authorization required

Commentary on Kita, van Gijn & van der Hulst (1998)

 | Stockholm University
 | University of California, San Diego
Published online: 24 November 2014
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.17.2.06bor
References (54)
Ann, Jean. 1996. On the relation between ease of articulation and frequency of occurrence of handshapes in two sign languages. Lingua 981. 19–41. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, Carol A. Padden & Wendy Sandler. 2003. Classifier constructions and morphology in two sign languages. In Karen Emmorey (ed.), Perspectives on classifier constructions in sign languages, 53–84. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2008. The roots of linguistic organization in a new language. Interaction Studies 91. 133–153. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Battison, Robbin. 1978. Lexical borrowing in American Sign Language. Silver Spring, MD: Linstok Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Channon, Rachel. 2004. The symmetry and dominance conditions reconsidered. Chicago Linguistic Society 401. 45–57.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Coppola, Marie & Elissa L. Newport. 2005. Grammatical subjects in home sign: Abstract linguistic structure in adult primary gesture systems without linguistic input. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1021. 19249–19253. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cormier, Kearsy, David Quinto-Pozos, Zed Sevcikova & Adam Schembri. 2012. Lexicalisation and de-lexicalisation processes in sign languages: Comparing depicting constructions and viewpoint gestures. Language & Communication 321. 329–348. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Eccarius, Petra & Diane Brentari. 2007. Symmetry and dominance: A cross-linguistic study of signs and classifier constructions. Lingua 1171. 1169–1201. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Friedman, Lynn A. 1977. On the other hand: New perspectives on American Sign Language. New York, NY: Academic Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Frishberg, Nancy. 1975. Arbitrariness and iconicity: Historical change in American Sign Language. Language 511. 696–719. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Goldin-Meadow, Susan. 1993. When does gesture become language? A study of gesture used as a primary communication system by deaf children of hearing parents. In Kathleen R. Gibson & Tim Ingold (eds.), Tools, language and cognition in human evolution, 63–85. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2003. The resilience of language: What gesture creation in deaf children can tell us about how all children learn language. New York, NY: Psychology Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Goldin-Meadow, Susan, David McNeill & Jenny L. Singleton. 1996. Silence is liberating: Removing the handcuffs on grammatical expression in the manual modality. Psychological Review 1031. 34–55. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Goldin-Meadow, Susan, Wing Chee So, Aslı Özyürek & Carolyn Mylander. 2008. The natural order of events: How speakers of different languages represent events nonverbally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1051. 9163–9168. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hall, Matthew L., Rachel I. Mayberry & Victor S. Ferreira. 2013. Cognitive constraints on constituent order: Evidence from elicited pantomime. Cognition 1291. 1–17. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hoy, Kate E., Paul B. Fitzgerald, John L. Bradshaw, Christine A. Armatas & Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis. 2004. Investigating the cortical origins of motor overflow. Brain Research (Brain Research Reviews) 461. 315–327. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hulst, Harry van der. 1996. On the other hand. Lingua 981. 121–143. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hwang, So-One, Desiree Hollifield, Sharon Seegers & Carol A. Padden. 2014. Phonological constraints on two-handed productions in sign-naïve gesturers. Paper presented at the 88th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America , Minneapolis, MN.
Kantor, Rebecca. 1980. The acquisition of classifiers in American Sign Language. Sign Language Studies 281. 193–208. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kelso, J.A. Scott, Dan L. Southard & David Goodman. 1979a. On the nature of human interlimb coordination. Science 2031. 1029–1031. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1979b. On the coordination of two-handed movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 51. 229–238. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kisch, Shifra. 2012. Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of a shared sign language: The case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin. In Ulrike Zeshan & Connie de Vos (eds.), Sign languages in village communitites: Anthropological and linguistic insights, 87–126. Berlin & Nijmegen: Mouton de Gruyter & Ishara Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kita, Sotaro, Ingeborg van Gijn & Harry van der Hulst. 1998. The non-linguistic status of the Symmetry Condition in signed languages: Evidence from a comparison of signs and speech-accompanying representational gestures. Unpublished manuscript, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen & Leiden University [published 2014: Sign Language & Linguistics 17(2), 209–232].
Klima, Edward S. & Ursula Bellugi. 1979. The signs of language. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kooij, Els van der. 2002. Phonological categories in Sign Language of the Netherlands: The role of phonetic implementation and iconicity. PhD dissertation, University of Leiden.
Lepic, Ryan, Gal Belsitzman, Carl Börstell & Wendy Sandler. 2013. Motivation in two-handed signs: A cross-linguistic investigation of word forms. Poster presented at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Linguistics 11 (TISLR11) , London, UK.
Liddell, Scott K. 2003. Grammar, gesture, and meaning in American Sign Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lupton, Linda K. & Howard N. Zelaznik. 1990. Motor learning in sign language students. Sign Language Studies 671. 153–174. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mandel, Mark A. 1979. Natural constraints in sign language phonology: Data from anatomy. Sign Language Studies 241. 215–229. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1981. Phonotactics and morphophonology of American Sign Language. PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
Meir, Irit. 2010. Iconicity and metaphor: Constraints on metaphorical extension of iconic forms. Language 861. 865–896. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Meir, Irit, Adi Lifshitz, Deniz İlkbasaran & Carol A. Padden. 2010. The interaction of animacy and word order in human languages: A study of strategies in a novel communication task. In Andrew D.M. Smith, Marieke Schouwstra, Bart de Boer & Kenny Smith (eds.), The evolution of language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EvoLang8), 455–456. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Meir, Irit, Carol A. Padden, Mark Aronoff & Wendy Sandler. 2007. Body as subject. Journal of Linguistics 431. 531–563. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2013. Competing iconicities in the structure of languages. Cognitive Linguistics 241. 309–343. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Padden, Carol A., Irit Meir, So-One Hwang, Ryan Lepic, Sharon Seegers & Tory Sampson. 2013. Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons. Gesture 131. 181–202. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sandler, Wendy. 1993. Hand in hand: The roles of the nondominant hand in sign language phonology. The Linguistic Review 101. 337–390. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sandler, Wendy, Mark Aronoff, Carol A. Padden & Irit Meir. 2014. Language emergence: Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language. In Nick J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman & Jack Sidnell (eds.), Cambridge handbook of linguistic anthropology, 250–284Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sandler, Wendy, Irit Meir, Carol A. Padden & Mark Aronoff. 2005. The emergence of grammar: Systematic structure in a new language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1021. 2661–2665. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Schouwstra, Marieke, Katja Abramova, Yasamin Motamedi, Kenny Smith & Simon Kirby. 2014. From silent gesture to artificial sign languages. In Tessa Verhoef & Bart de Boer (eds.), Evolang X: Workshop on Signals, Speech and Signs, 35–39. Vienna.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Schouwstra, Marieke & Henriëtte de Swart. 2014. The semantic origins of word order. Cognition 1311. 431–436. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Scott-Phillips, Thomas C. & Simon Kirby. 2010. Language evolution in the laboratory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 141. 411–417. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Senghas, Ann & Marie Coppola. 2001. Children creating language: How Nicaraguan Sign Language acquired a spatial grammar. Psychological Science 121. 323–328. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Senghas, Ann, Sotaro Kita & Aslı Özyürek. 2004. Children creating core properties of language: Evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua. Science 3051. 1779–1782. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Singleton, Jenny L., Susan Goldin-Meadow & David McNeill. 1995. The cataclysmic break between gesticulation and sign: Evidence against a unified continuum of gestural communication. In Karen Emmorey & Judy Reilly (eds.), Language, gesture, and space, 287–311. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Siple, Patricia. 1978. Visual constraints for sign language communication. Sign Language Studies 191. 95–110. .Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Stokoe, William C. 1960. Sign language structure: An outline of the visual communication system of the American Deaf. Studies in linguistics: Occasional papers (No. 8). Buffalo, NY: Dept. of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Buffalo.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Supalla, Ted. 1986. The classifier system in American Sign Language. In Colette G. Craig (ed.), Noun classification and categorization, 181–214. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Supalla, Ted & Elissa L. Newport. 1978. How many seats in a chair?: The derivation of nouns and verbs in American Sign Language. In Patricia Siple (ed.), Understanding language through sign language research, 91–132. New York, NY: Academic Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Swisher, M. Virginia. 1993. Perceptual and cognitive aspects of recognition of signs in peripheral vision. In Marc Marschark & M. Diane Clark (eds.), Psychological perspectives on deafness, 209–227. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Taub, Sarah F. 2001. Language from the body: Iconicity and metaphor in ASL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Zwitserlood, Inge. 2008. Morphology below the level of the sign: Frozen forms and classifier predicates. In Josep Quer (ed.), Signs of the time: Selected papers from TISLR 2004, 251–272. Hamburg: Signum Verlag.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue