Haviland2015

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Haviland2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Haviland2015
Author(s) John B. Haviland
Title Hey!
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Tag(s) Sign Language, Gesture, Turn-taking, Summons, EMCA
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Year 2015
Language English
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Journal Topics in Cognitive Science
Volume 7
Number 1
Pages 124–179
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DOI 10.1111/tops.12126
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Abstract

Zinacantec Family Homesign (Z) is a new sign language emerging spontaneously over the past three decades in a single family in a remote Mayan Indian village. Three deaf siblings, their Tzotzil‐speaking age‐mates, and now their children, who have had contact with no other deaf people, represent the first generation of Z signers. I postulate an augmented grammaticalization path, beginning with the adoption of a Tzotzil cospeech holophrastic gesture—meaning “come!”—into Z, and then its apparent stylization as an attention‐getting sign, followed by grammatical regimentation and pragmatic generalization as an utterance initial change of speaker or turn marker.

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