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Pointing and Self-reference in French and French Sign Language

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Morgenstern A., Caët S., Limousin F.

Open Linguistics

2016

vol. 2

issue 1

The aim of this paper is to conduct an exploratory study and compare the development of pointing and its specific use as self-reference in French sign language (LSF) with the development of pointing and self reference in French. Personal reference is expressed through nominal expressions and pronouns in French. In LSF, the signs used for personal reference have the same form as pointing gestures, which are present in children’s communication system from the age of 10-11 months (Bates et. al 1977, Clark 1978). Continuity between pointing gestures and signs is questioned by Bellugi & Klima (1981) and Petitto (1986), who indicate that signing children’s pre-linguistic pointing gestures are different from signs and correspond to two distinct categories: indexical and symbolic. We present arguments for a continuity hypothesis between pointing gestures and signs. We coded two longitudinal datasets of a French-speaking child and a French Sign Language signing child aged seven months to three years, filmed at home with their mothers once a month. Our analyses enabled us to underline the continuity between the deaf child’s pointing gestures and their incorporation as markers of personal reference into the child’s sign language system.

Rozwój kompetencji fonologicznych dzieci nabywających języki migowe

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Kotowicz J.

Polonica

2016

vol. 36

145-157

Deaf and hearing children of deaf parents acquire naturally sign language at the levels of phonology, morphology, syntax and pragmatics. In this article we describe the process of children’s sign development at the level of phonology. On the basis of the sign language structure theory of W. Stokoe, a pioneer researcher of sign linguistics, we distinguish three parameters acquired by children: location (place of articulation), hand configuration (shape of the hand) and movement (hand action). The acquisition of sign phonology is proceed according the rules, whose existence are approved by proper use of parameters and errors at the certain level of sign phonology development. In sign phonology acquisition we can find nonmarked parameters, which are earlier produced by children, distinct, less complex and most frequently occurring in adults utterances; and marked parameters which appear later in child development.

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1 Open Linguistics

1 Polonica

1 Caët S.

1 Kotowicz J.

1 Limousin F.

1 Morgenstern A.

2 2016

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Pointing and Self-reference in French and French Sign Language

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