The communicative importance of agent-backgrounding: Evidence from homesign and Nicaraguan Sign Language

Some concepts are more essential for human communication than others. In this paper, we investigate whether the concept of agent-backgrounding is sufficiently important for communication that linguistic structures for encoding this concept are present in young sign languages. Agent-backgrounding con...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Cognition 2020-10, Vol.203, p.104332-104332, Article 104332
Hauptverfasser:	Rissman, Lilia, Horton, Laura, Flaherty, Molly, Senghas, Ann, Coppola, Marie, Brentari, Diane, Goldin-Meadow, Susan
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agency Agents Cognitive ability Communication Encoding Gesture Language Language emergence Linguistics Morphology Semantics Sign language Sign languages Typology
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