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Emergence or Grammaticalization? The Case of Negation in Kata Kolok by Lutzenberger, Hannah, Pfau, Roland, de Vos, Connie

“…Typological comparisons have revealed that signers can use manual elements and/or a non-manual marker to express standard negation, but little is known about…”
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Turn-timing in signed conversations: coordinating stroke-to-stroke turn boundaries by de Vos, Connie, Torreira, Francisco, Levinson, Stephen C

“…In spoken interactions, interlocutors carefully plan, and time their utterances, minimizing gaps and overlaps between consecutive turns. Cross-linguistic…”
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Shared Context Facilitates Lexical Variation in Sign Language Emergence by Mudd, Katie, de Vos, Connie, de Boer, Bart

“…It has been suggested that social structure affects the degree of lexical variation in sign language emergence. Evidence from signing communities supports…”
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Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: Evidence from color-naming in “cross signing” by Byun, Kang-Suk, Roberts, Seán G., de Vos, Connie, Zeshan, Ulrike, Levinson, Stephen C.

“…Cross-signing—the emergence of an interlanguage between users of different sign languages—offers a rare chance to examine the evolution of a natural…”
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Argument Structure of Classifier Predicates: Canonical and Non-canonical Mappings in Four Sign Languages by Kimmelman, Vadim, de Lint, Vanja, de Vos, Connie, Oomen, Marloes, Pfau, Roland, Vink, Lianne, Aboh, Enoch O.

“…We analyze argument structure of whole-entity and handling classifier predicates in four sign languages (Russian Sign Language, Sign Language of the…”
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The Time Depth and Typology of Rural Sign Languages by DE VOS, CONNIE, NYST, VICTORIA

“…Irit Meir sadly passed away right after the issue was accepted for publication. We wish to honor her for her immense contribution to the field of sign language…”
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Formal variation in the Kata Kolok lexicon by Lutzenberger, Hannah, de Vos, Connie, Crasborn, Onno, Fikkert, Paula

“…Sign language lexicons incorporate phonological specifications. Evidence from emerging sign languages suggests that phonological structure emerges gradually in…”
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Cognitive pragmatics: Insights from homesign conversations by de Vos, Connie

“…Homesign is a visual-gestural form of communication that emerges between deaf individuals and their hearing interlocutors in the absence of a conventional sign…”
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Pragmatic competence without a language model: Other-Initiated Repair in Balinese homesign by Safar, Josefina, de Vos, Connie

“…Homesigners are deaf individuals who have grown up in the absence of a conventional language model and have co-created a unique communication system with their…”
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Classifications and typologies: Labeling sign languages and signing communities by Hou, Lynn, Vos, Connie

“…This commentary examines the growing trend of documenting the variety and complexity of signing practices in the context of diverse sociolinguistic ecologies…”
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Sign Language Typology: The Contribution of Rural Sign Languages by de Vos, Connie, Pfau, Roland

“…Since the 1990s, the field of sign language typology has shown that sign languages exhibit typological variation at all relevant levels of linguistic…”
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Sampling Shared Sign Languages by de VOS, CONNIE

“…This article addresses some of the theoretical questions, ethical considerations, and methodological decisions that guided the creation of the Kata Kolok…”
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Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages by Majid, Asifa, Roberts, Seán G., Cilissen, Ludy, Emmorey, Karen, Nicodemus, Brenda, O’Grady, Lucinda, Woll, Bencie, LeLan, Barbara, de Sousa, Hilário, Cansler, Brian L., Shayan, Shakila, de Vos, Connie, Senft, Gunter, Enfield, N. J., Razak, Rogayah A., Fedden, Sebastian, Tufvesson, Sylvia, Dingemanse, Mark, Ozturk, Ozge, Brown, Penelope, Hill, Clair, Le Guen, Olivier, Hirtzel, Vincent, van Gijn, Rik, Sicoli, Mark A., Levinson, Stephen C.

“…Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others…”
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The Kata Kolok Pointing System: Morphemization and Syntactic Integration by de Vos, Connie

“…Signed utterances are densely packed with pointing signs, reaching a frequency of one in six signs in spontaneous conversations (de Vos, 2012; Johnston, 2013a;…”
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More Than Looks: Exploring Methods to Test Phonological Discrimination in the Sign Language Kata Kolok by Lutzenberger, Hannah, Casillas, Marisa, Fikkert, Paula, Crasborn, Onno, de Vos, Connie

“…The lack of diversity in the language sciences has increasingly been criticized as it holds the potential for producing flawed theories. Research on (i)…”
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First Encounters: Repair Sequences in Cross‐Signing by Byun, Kang‐Suk, Vos, Connie, Bradford, Anastasia, Zeshan, Ulrike, Levinson, Stephen C.

“…Most human communication is between people who speak or sign the same languages. Nevertheless, communication is to some extent possible where there is no…”
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Gaurav Mathur & Donna Jo Napoli (eds.), Deaf around the world: The impact of language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii+398 by de Vos, Connie, Palfreyman, Nick

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Mixed Signals: Combining Linguistic and Affective Functions of Eyebrows in Questions in Sign Language of the Netherlands by de Vos, Connie, van der Kooij, Els, Crasborn, Onno

“…The eyebrows are used as conversational signals in face-to-face spoken interaction (Ekman, 1979). In Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT), the eyebrows are…”
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The effect of cultural transmission on shared sign language persistence by Mudd, Katie, de Vos, Connie, de Boer, Bart

“…Abstract In this paper, we revisit a mathematical model of sign language persistence by Aoki and Feldman (Theor Popul Biol 39(3):358–372, 1991), which…”
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Deaf around the world: The impact of language by de Vos, Connie, Palfreyman, Nick

“…Working in the village community of Bengkala on the Indonesian island Bali, the first author of this review has documented and described Kata Kolok, an…”
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