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Methods and models in historical comparative research on signed languages ...
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Abstract:
While there has been a surge in interest over the past two decades in quantitative and computational approaches to questions in historical linguistics, this research program has focused on human languages in only one of the two main modalities, that is, spoken languages in the aural-oral modality. Signed languages in the visual-gestural modality, in contrast, have been largely absent from theoretical discussions concerning the evolution of language and from methodological discussions aimed at developing infrastructures for data sharing and data accessibility in historical comparative research. Perhaps in consequence, despite the ubiquity of computational and quantitative phylogenetic approaches in historical linguistics, there have been relatively few attempts to apply these approaches to the study of sign languages and their histories (Yu et al 2018, Power et al 2020). In this presentation, we highlight two of the main obstacles to quantitative and computational approaches in historical comparative ...
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Keyword:
historical linguistics; sign language
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/23367 https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/96451
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Methods and models in historical comparative research on signed languages
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