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Young sign languages, multimodality and rapid language evolution in Papua New Guinea ...
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A paper presented at CoEDL Fest, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 4 February 2019 ABSTRACT Papua New Guinea occupies only 1% of the world’s land mass and is home to just 0.1% of its population, yet it is host to 10% of the world’s spoken languages (Evans & Klamer, 2012). Despite this phenomenal spoken language diversity, up until now almost no attention has been paid to signed languages (SLs) of PNG (the only published study of a SL in PNG being Kendon, 1980a, 1980b, 1980c). Over the past three years we have worked on two of them, both of which show hallmarks of rapid language evolution. Firstly, we discuss Kailge Sign Language (KaiSL), a very small sign language centered on one deaf adult in a rural community. KaiSL has evolved very rapidly, a claim which we support through comparison with other young SLs, and through showcasing its tight conversational turns, its “non-present” time adverb, and a non-manual subject marker. We argue that KaiSL’s rapid emergence has been facilitated by an ...
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200406 Language in Time and Space incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology; 200499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified; FOS Languages and literature; Linguistics
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9759572
https://figshare.com/articles/Young_sign_languages_multimodality_and_rapid_language_evolution_in_Papua_New_Guinea/9759572
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