Playing With Language in the Manual Modality: Which Motions Do Signers Gradiently Modify?
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70051
Abstract: Abstract Language is traditionally characterized as an arbitrary, symbolic system, made up of discrete, categorical forms. But iconicity and gradience are pervasive in communication. For example, in spoken languages, word forms can be “played with”… read more here.
Keywords: modality motions; playing language; gradient modification; language ... See more keywords