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Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change
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- 4 Sequences
- Advanced Level
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Syllabus
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
- Fundamental issues for language status
- Emergence and evolution of sign language
- History of American Sign Language
- Variation and change within ASL
- Lexical representation and annotation
- Cognitive processing
- From transparent to opaque morphology
- Literary innovation constrained by grammar
- Framework for Sign Language Structure, Learning and Change
Module 2
- Sign features and syntactic packaging
- Co-articulation and timing of suprasegmentals
- Interaction of syntax and prosody
- The spatial architecture for linguistic scaffolding
- Reference frame and spatial verb typology
- Core lexemes and frozen derivatives
- Layering of lexical representation and articulatory operations
- Linear template and syntactic agreement slots
- Optimizing loan words for syntactic agreement
- Split between inflectional space and lexicon
Module 3
- Biological and environmental factors for language acquisition and evolution
- Challenge of designing a visual language based on English morphology
- Potential impact of visual analogy on grammar
- Morphological typology and complexity
- The neurobiology of sign language processing
- Reframing ASL as a classifier predicate language
- Acquisition of ASL morphology
- Best-fit architecture and cognitive scaffolding
- Factors affecting homogenous use of sign language
- Natural experiment for language evolution
Module 4
- Sign language archaeology
- Emergence of grammar
- Gestural discourse dynamics and collective memory
- Historical sociolinguistics
- History of polyglottism and diglossia in Deaf community
- Reconstructing early ASL grammar
- From syntax to bound morphology
- Development of bound morphology
- The current state of sign language structure, learning and change
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Ted Supalla
Professor of Neurology, Linguistics, and Psychology
Georgetown University
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