Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign language

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Autor(a) principal: Mineiro, Ana
Data de Publicação: 2017
Outros Autores: Carmo, Patrícia, Caroça, Cristina, Moita, Mara, Carvalho, Sara, Paço, João, Zaky, Ahmed
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/33312
Resumo: In 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.
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spelling Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign languageHome signsIconicityLanguage policySign language emergenceVocabulary developmentWord orderIn 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.Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaMineiro, AnaCarmo, PatríciaCaroça, CristinaMoita, MaraCarvalho, SaraPaço, JoãoZaky, Ahmed2021-05-27T10:35:32Z2017-11-062017-11-06T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/33312eng1387-9316info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-09-12T01:38:57Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/33312Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:27:04.865645Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign language
title Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign language
spellingShingle Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign language
Mineiro, Ana
Home signs
Iconicity
Language policy
Sign language emergence
Vocabulary development
Word order
title_short Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign language
title_full Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign language
title_fullStr Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign language
title_full_unstemmed Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign language
title_sort Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign language
author Mineiro, Ana
author_facet Mineiro, Ana
Carmo, Patrícia
Caroça, Cristina
Moita, Mara
Carvalho, Sara
Paço, João
Zaky, Ahmed
author_role author
author2 Carmo, Patrícia
Caroça, Cristina
Moita, Mara
Carvalho, Sara
Paço, João
Zaky, Ahmed
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Mineiro, Ana
Carmo, Patrícia
Caroça, Cristina
Moita, Mara
Carvalho, Sara
Paço, João
Zaky, Ahmed
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Home signs
Iconicity
Language policy
Sign language emergence
Vocabulary development
Word order
topic Home signs
Iconicity
Language policy
Sign language emergence
Vocabulary development
Word order
description In 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.
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