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SUMMARY:Knowledge of Language: Perspectives from Sign and Gesture Studies
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LOCATION:1151 Richmond Street\, London\, Canada
DESCRIPTION:<p>Abstract:</p>\n<p>Recent and emerging discoveries in Sign and Gesture studies put serious pressure on the widespread idea that we can model a subject&rsquo\;s knowledge of a language in terms of their knowledge of a well-defined set of rules governing\, among other things\, the grammar\, semantics\, and phonology of that language. First\, I point out that all extant Sign languages are historically recent creations\, which have emerged spontaneously (though gradually) from patterns of presumptively non-linguistic gestural communication among Deaf people. I argue that there is no unique point in their history at which these gestural systems would have transitioned to become &ldquo\;languages proper&rdquo\; (even as they are\, indisputably\, languages by now). Second\, I point out that speech\, no less than Sign\, continues to functionally incorporate non-categorical &ldquo\;gestural&rdquo\; complements in both semantic and grammatical roles\, pointing toward a conception of language &ndash\; in any form &ndash\; as a &ldquo\;multimodal&rdquo\; phenomenon.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>To receive the Zoom link\, please contact fhazrati@uwo.ca.</p>
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