Opacity and Sound Change in the Polish Lexicon
- Nathan Sanders
- Linguistics
- 1 June 2003
Reactive effort as a factor that shapes sign language lexicons
- Nathan Sanders, Nathan Donna Jo Napoli
- Linguistics
- 28 June 2016
Many properties of languages, including sign languages, are not uniformly distributed among items in the lexicon. Some of this nonuniformity can be accounted for by appeal to articulatory ease, with…
On the linguistic effects of articulatory ease, with a focus on sign languages
- D. Napoli, Nathan Sanders, Donna Jo Nathan Rebecca Wright
- Biology
- 21 June 2014
The work advances a cross-modality approach for considering ease of articulation, develops a potentially important vocabulary for describing variations in signs, and demonstrates that American Sign Language exhibits variation that can be accounted for in terms of easeof articulation.
On the linguistic effects of articulatory ease, with a focus on sign languages
- D. Napoli, Nathan Sanders, Donna Jo Nathan Rebecca Wright
- Linguistics
- 21 June 2014
Infixal Nominal Reduplication in Mangarayi
- K. Kurisu, Nathan Sanders
- Linguistics
- 1 October 1999
This paper analyzes nominal reduplication in MaNarayi, an Aboriginal language spoken in the Northwest Territory of Australia, and provides theoretical arguments against the templatic analysis, arguing that reduplation is best explained a-templatically.
A Cross-Linguistic Preference For Torso Stability In The Lexicon: Evidence From 24 Sign Languages
- Nathan Sanders, D. Napoli
- Linguistics
- 2016
Evidence from 24 sign languages confirming that there is a cross-linguistic preference for minimizing the reactive effort needed to keep the torso stable is presented.
Constructed languages in the classroom
- Nathan Sanders
- Linguistics, Sociology
- 9 September 2016
Constructed languages (purposefully invented languages like Esperanto and Klingon) have long captured the human imagination. They can also be used as pedagogical tools in the linguistics classroom to…
Language Invention in Linguistics Pedagogy
- Nathan Sanders, N. Sanders
- Linguistics
- 12 August 2020
This volume brings together multiple emerging strands of interest in language and linguistics. First is increasing attention on pedagogical scholarship in linguistics, signaled by the 2013 addition…
Some issues in the perceptual phonetics of sign language: Motion-in-depth and the horizontal-vertical illusion
- Nathan Sanders
- Linguistics
- 21 April 2018
Because of inherent limitations of the human visual system, some movements are more difficult to perceive than others are. This may result in those movements being dispreferred in sign languages. I…
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