Reading for F 10/26: Jackendoff, Ch. 7, Ch. 10 (126-130); Optional: Senghas et al. 2004

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For this Friday 10/26, please read the following:

  1. Chapter 7 of the Jackendoff book Patterns in the Mind
  2. pgs. 126-130 of Chapter 10 of the Jackendoff book

I have also posted the following optional reading at the “Readings” section of this website:

Senghas, Ann, Sotaro Kita & Asli Özyürek. 2004. Children creating core properties of language: Evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua. Science 305: 1779-1782.

The Senghas et al. article describes certain features of Nicaraguan Sign Language, a signed language which has been “created from scratch” in recent years.  Next Monday, we will look at other such cases in which languages are “created from scratch”.