Stamp, R;
Schembri, A;
Evans, BG;
Cormier, K;
(2016)
Regional Sign Language Varieties in Contact: Investigating Patterns of Accommodation.
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
, 21
(1)
pp. 70-82.
10.1093/deafed/env043.
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Abstract
Short-term linguistic accommodation has been observed in a number of spoken language studies. The first of its kind in sign language research, this study aims to investigate the effects of regional varieties in contact and lexical accommodation in British Sign Language (BSL). Twenty-five participants were recruited from Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, and Newcastle and paired with the same conversational partner. Participants completed a “spot-the-difference” task which elicited a considerable amount of contrasting regionally specific sign data in the participant-confederate dyads. Accommodation was observed during the task with younger signers accommodating more than older signers. The results are interpreted with reference to the relationship between language contact and lexical accommodation in BSL, and address how further studies could help us better understand how contact and accommodation contribute to language change more generally.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Regional Sign Language Varieties in Contact: Investigating Patterns of Accommodation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/deafed/env043 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/deafed/env043 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ following peer review. The version of record Rose Stamp, Adam Schembri, Bronwen G. Evans, Kearsy Cormier; Regional Sign Language Varieties in Contact: Investigating Patterns of Accommodation. J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ 2016; 21 (1): 70-82. is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1093/deafed/env043. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Education, Special, Rehabilitation, Education & Educational Research, Adverse Listening Conditions, Jury Deliberations, Speech-Perception, Gender, Trudgill, Identity, Convergence, Behavior, English, Dyads |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1437531 |
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