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Why are sign languages iconic?

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The standard answer to this question is that sign languages are iconic because they can be, as visual-manual systems. But knowing that sign languages are iconic does not explain how […]

Compositionality or generalization?

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The principle of compositionality says roughly that the meaning of a complex syntactic phrase is determined by the meanings of its constituent parts. When linguists seek compositional analyses of linguistic […]

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