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Altinkamis, N. Feyza; Kern, Sophie; Sofu, Hatice – First Language, 2014
The main goal of this article is to study the respective role of language typology and context on the noun to verb asymmetry in caregiver speech. The speech of 20 French- and 20 Turkish-speaking mothers addressed to their children in two different situations (book-reading and toy-play) were analysed in terms of noun to verb ratio as well as in…
Descriptors: Context Effect, French, Mothers, Toys
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Slobin, Dan I. – Sign Language Studies, 2008
Grammars of signed languages tend to be based on grammars established for written languages, particularly the written language in use in the surrounding hearing community of a sign language. Such grammars presuppose categories of discrete elements which are combined into various sorts of structures. Recent analyses of signed languages go beyond…
Descriptors: Written Language, Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Grammar