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Signs of Globalization: ASL Influence in the Lexicon of New Zealand Sign Language
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McKee, Rachel; Vale, Mireille; Alexander, Sara Pivac; McKee, David – Sign Language Studies, 2022
Lexical variation and change is prevalent in the short history of New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) and in the current context of globalized flows of communication we observe growing use of ASL-concordant variants that land in New Zealand via other signed languages, online deaf media, and international interaction. Results from a variant-pair…
Descriptors: Global Approach, American Sign Language, Pragmatics, Semantics
Old Signs, New Signs, Whose Signs? Sociolinguistic Variation in the NZSL Lexicon
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McKee, Rachel; McKee, David – Sign Language Studies, 2011
Lexicographers, teachers and interpreters of New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) are challenged by the degree of lexical variation that exists in this young language. For instance, most numerals between one and twenty have two or more variants in common use (McKee, McKee, and Major 2008), a situation that contrasts with most established spoken…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Phonology, Syntax, Dictionaries
Numeral Variation in New Zealand Sign Language
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McKee, David; McKee, Rachel; Major, George – Sign Language Studies, 2011
Lexical variation abounds in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) and is commonly associated with the introduction of the Australasian Signed English lexicon into Deaf education in 1979, before NZSL was acknowledged as a language. Evidence from dictionaries of NZSL collated between 1986 and 1997 reveal many coexisting variants for the numbers from one…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Language Variation, Deafness