Knowledge of Language Transfers from Speech to Sign: Evidence from Doubling

Autor/inn/en	Berent, Iris; Bat-El, Outi; Brentari, Diane; Platt, Melanie
Titel	Knowledge of Language Transfers from Speech to Sign: Evidence from Doubling
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 44 (2020) 1, (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-6709
DOI	10.1111/cogs.12809
Schlagwörter	Linguistic Borrowing; Grammar; Speech Communication; American Sign Language; Morphology (Languages); Dravidian Languages; Morphemes; Phonology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehnwort; Grammatik; Morphology; Morphologie; Morphem; Fonologie
Abstract	Does knowledge of language transfer across language modalities? For example, can speakers who have had no sign language experience spontaneously project grammatical principles of English to American Sign Language (ASL) "signs"? To address this question, here, we explore a grammatical illusion. Using spoken language, we first show that a single word with doubling (e.g., "trafraf") can elicit conflicting linguistic responses, depending on the level of linguistic analysis (phonology vs. morphology). We next show that speakers with no command of a sign language extend these same principles to novel ASL signs. Remarkably, the morphological analysis of ASL "signs" depends on the morphology of participants' "spoken" language. Speakers of Malayalam (a language with rich reduplicative morphology) prefer XX signs when doubling signals morphological plurality, whereas no such preference is seen in speakers of Mandarin (a language with no productive plural morphology). Our conclusions open up the possibility that some linguistic principles are amodal and abstract. (As Provided).
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