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Abstract
Abstract Compounding, as a nearly universal word-formation process that is very useful in emerging languages, might be expected to conventionalize early in a language’s history. However, a recent study focusing on novel compounding in ISL and ABSL found that this may not be the case, and moreover, that the two languages appear to differ in how compounding is conventionalizing (Tkachman & Meir 2018). In this paper, we follow up on their findings, using six new measures to further evaluate lexical and structural conventionalization in the same set of novel compounds elicited by Tkachman & Meir (2018). We found that ISL shows more lexical convergence, whereas ABSL shows more structural convergence. We propose that the differences in conventionalization we observe can be linked to the different social circumstances of these languages (Meir et al. 2010).
复合构词作为一种几乎普遍的构词过程，在新兴语言中非常有用，可能在语言历史的早期就被约定俗成。然而，最近一项针对ISL和ABSL中新型复合的研究发现，情况可能并非如此，而且，这两种语言在复合的常规化方式上似乎有所不同(Tkachman & Meir 2018)。在本文中，我们跟进了他们的发现，使用了六种新的测量方法来进一步评估Tkachman和Meir(2018)提出的同一组新化合物的词汇和结构约定俗成。我们发现，ISL语言表现出更多的词汇趋同，而ABSL语言表现出更多的结构趋同。我们认为，我们观察到的约定俗成的差异可能与这些语言的不同社会环境有关(Meir et al. 2010)。
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Sign Language & Linguistics is a peer-reviewed, international journal which aims to increase our understanding of language by providing an academic forum for researchers to discuss sign languages in the larger context of natural language, crosslinguistically and crossmodally. SLL presents studies that apply existing theoretical insights to sign language in order to further our understanding of SL; it investigates and expands our knowledge of grammar based on the study of SL and it specifically addresses the effect of modality (signed vs. spoken) on the structure of grammar.
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