Conventionalization of Iconic Handshape Preferences in Family Homesign Systems
Variation in the linguistic use of handshapes exists across sign languages, but it is unclear how these iconic handshape preferences arise and become conventionalized. In order to understand the factors that shape such handshape preferences in the earliest stages of language emergence, we examined c...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Languages |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/3/156 |