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Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign language

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dc.contributor.authorMineiro, Ana
dc.contributor.authorCarmo, Patrícia
dc.contributor.authorCaroça, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorMoita, Mara
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, Sara
dc.contributor.authorPaço, João
dc.contributor.authorZaky, Ahmed
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-27T10:35:32Z
dc.date.available2021-05-27T10:35:32Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-06
dc.description.abstractIn Sao Tome and Principe there are approximately five thousand deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. Until recently, these people had no language to use among them other than basic home signs used only to communicate with their families. With this communication gap in mind, a project was set up to help them come together in a common space in order to create a dedicated environment for a common sign language to emerge. In less than two years, the first cohort began to sign and to develop a newly emerging sign language – the Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language (LGSTP). Signs were elicited by means of drawings and pictures and recorded from the beginning of the project. The emergent structures of signs in this new language were compared with those reported for other emergent sign languages such as the Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language and the Lengua de Señas de Nicaragua, and several similarities were found at the first stage. In this preliminary study on the emergence of LGSTP, it was observed that, in its first stage, signs are mostly iconic and exhibit a greater involvement of the articulators and a larger signing space when compared with subsequent stages of LGSTP emergence and with other sign languages. Although holistic signs are the prevalent structure, compounding seems to be emerging. At this stage of emergence, OSV seems to be the predominant syntactic structure of LGSTP. Yet the data suggest that new signers exhibit difficulties in syntactic constructions with two arguments.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.eid85038378301
dc.identifier.issn1387-9316
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/33312
dc.identifier.wos000416070700004
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.subjectHome signspt_PT
dc.subjectIconicitypt_PT
dc.subjectLanguage policypt_PT
dc.subjectSign language emergencept_PT
dc.subjectVocabulary developmentpt_PT
dc.subjectWord orderpt_PT
dc.titleEmerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign languagept_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage128pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue1pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage109pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleSign Language and Linguistics (Online)pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume20pt_PT
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person.givenNameCristina
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