Recently found a paper on Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) through Wikipedia, then forgot where it was for a few days, and found it again 😛 (I mostly just want to use it for its illustrations of signs in ABSL tbh): https://t.co/nfc16qjEzz
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https://t.co/rEHZLtDDXd ”ABSL shows much lexical variation and a degree of sublexical variation that leads us to believe it does not yet have a phonological level of structure, that it is a language without duality of patterning.” (Conclusion の最初の段落。)
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@TreanorFergal @RaviniaReading @sociolinguista @Astrophys_Adam I'm not sure it's true that language couldn't exist without phonemes. (If I'm right that that's what you're saying, or implied by it.) ABSL apparently went without them for a significant portio
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RT @Limor_Raviv: Compositionality without combinatorical structure: cool paper about the early stages of language formation https://t.co/o…