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Emerging Deictic Systems Shaped by Language, Modality, and Social Interaction ...
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To achieve social actions and coordination, we communicate different types of meanings that vary in how they relate to the world. Some form-meaning mappings are arbitrarily linked to the world, but other types of communicative forms need to be interpreted within context. This dissertation examines how we learn to integrate these various representations, focusing on deixis. The first part of this dissertation attempts to understand a long-standing theoretical question of whether pointing in signed languages has similar forms and functions as deixis in spoken languages. In Chapter 1, using naturalistic corpus data involving children communicating in spoken and signed languages, I compare the form and function of pointing and spoken pronouns over development from ages 1;06 to 4;02. Signers apply a functional analysis to their pointing in a similar way that speakers do with their deictic systems, showing similar distributions of 1) displaced references, 2) referentiality, and 3) productive combinations of ...
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Developmental psychology; FOS Languages and literature; Linguistics
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.3441
https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3441
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Creating Images With the Stroke of a Hand: Depiction of Size and Shape in Sign Language
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Mapping language to the world: the role of iconicity in the sign language input
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