From gesture to sign? an exploration of the effects of communicative pressure, interaction, and time on the process of conventionalisation

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• What: This study explored how non-signers exploit their gestural repertoire during a process of handshape conventionalisation. The authors examine how the process of conventionalisation starts by looking at non-signers` manual productions. The authors focus on the initial challenges facing a hearing second language (L2) learner of Sign when grappling with one set of linguistic constructions whose imagistic basis is clear - the classifier construction - but whose form is nevertheless conventionalised within the particular signed language being learnt. By examining the productions of non-signers during a silent gesture-elicitation task, the authors investigate whether different communicative . . .
  

   

  

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