Measuring conventionalization in the manual modality

S Namboodiripad, D Lenzen, R Lepic… - Journal of Language …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Gestures produced by users of spoken languages differ from signs produced by users of
sign languages in that gestures are more typically ad hoc and idiosyncratic, while signs are …

[PDF][PDF] Compositionality Arises from Iterated Learning Despite a Preference for Holistic Signals: An Experimental Model of Sign Language Emergence'

S Kirby, A Ravignani - The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the …, 2022 - evolang.org
Background Cultural evolution has been proposed to account for the origins of
compositionality (Smith, 2018), by which we mean the use of a segmented sequence of …

[HENVISNING][C] Commentary on Kita, van Gijn & van der Hulst (1998)

C Börstell, R Lepic - Sign Language & Linguistics, 2014 - jbe-platform.com
Battison (1978), without doubt one of the most-cited works in the field of sign language
linguistics, proposes two conditions which together constrain structural complexity in two …