LIGN 148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deixis, Pragmatics, Iconicity
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Lecture 2 the evolution of phonological structure. Co-speech/verbal gesture: 90% of speech is accompanied by gesture, categories of gestures, points (deictic, beats. 2: cross, star of david, bald eagle, flag. Referent signified referent: speech iconicity, word form imitates sound, word form < -- > word meaning, click, buzz, oink, quack meow, hiccup, bang, splash, squish. 3: stomp, stump, tamp, sound symbolic words in japanese, gorogorogoro (goro = heavy object rolling) Modality specific effects: different properties of articulators, different properties of perceptual systems, greater potential for visual-gestural systems to use iconicity & indexical representation, youth of sign languages & roots in (nonlinguistic) gesture. Some concepts in frishberg: historical processes/changes, diachronic change, change in, symmetry, movement, displacement (change in location, signs evolve to make them easier to be perceived, signs located on the chest rely on movement for perception. Iconicity: arbitrariness, formational level, ofsl, old french sign language , diglossia, glottocentric.
