Quote: mimetic sign language is like spoken language: complex forms from a small number of discrete components in a shell-like structure

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In ASL [mimetic American Sign Language], the morphemes are often highly … complex forms are made up of a limited … in spoken languages. … It therefore appears that language demands this type … [visual-gestural] modality would permit other quite different organizational possibilities. … [p. 480] According to our analyses, signed languages (at … marks the same kinds of semantic distinctions marked … these distinctions: a limited number of parameters along … governing the permissible ways in which these discrete … Why are languages organized in this way? I … organized in constrained ways, arises from the learning …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: languages have a highly analytic, shell-like structure because of learning

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