S. Ragir. Constraints on communities with indigenous sign languages: clues to the dynamics of language origins. In A. Wray, editor, The Transition to Language, pages 272--294. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

.... events, Sonia Ragir has suggested that the emergence of new languages, both signed and spoken, depends on: 1) a critical mass of individuals generating shared patterns of linguistic practices; 2) historical continuity maintained by a continuous influx of new participants into the language pool [13]. Similar factors have been highlighted in studies of language change driven by dialect contact. In their list of factors influencing the outcome of dialect contact, Kerswill Williams emphasise the importance of [t]he proportion of children to adults in the immediate post settlement years [7, ....

S. Ragir. Constraints on communities with indigenous sign languages: clues to the dynamics of language origins. In A. Wray, editor, The Transition to Language, pages 272--294. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002.

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