Haviland2015
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| 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 |
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| Journal | Topics in Cognitive Science |
| Volume | 7 |
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| 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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