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This phenomenon is treated as an example of phonology in the process of emergence in a very young language. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC325023
by DenisM 9y ago
This phenomenon is treated as an example of phonology in the process of emergence in a very young language.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3250231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3250231/
- athom 9y agoI was just thinking that "...a new sign language emerging..." would more likely consist of whole concepts embodied in independent expressions, which later get broken down into some parts that are more easily recombined into new words/concepts. Thanks for casting sharing this perspective!