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Building a single proposition from imagistic and categorical components

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2017

Kathryn Davidson
Kathryn Davidson*
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Department of Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. kathryndavidson@fas.harvard.edu http://scholar.harvard.edu/kathryndavidson
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Abstract

Bimodal bilingual language provides further evidence for the viewpoint advocated by Goldin-Meadow & Brentari (G-M&B) that sign, speech, and gesture work together to create a single proposition, illustrating the potential in each set of articulators for both imagistic and categorical components. Recent advances in formal semantics provide a framework for incorporating both imagistic and categorical components into a single compositional system.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e52
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