<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morgan, H. E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mayberry, R. I.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Complexity in two-handed signs in Kenyan Sign Language: Evidence for sublexical structure in a young sign language</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sign Lang Linguist</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/sll.15.1.07mor/details</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">15</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">147-174</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;This paper investigates whether two-handed signs in Kenyan Sign Language, a relatively young school-based sign language, conform to the same constraints on combinations of movement and handshape that hold in other sign languages. An analysis of 467 two-handed signs, separated into four types based on complexity, found that KSL is highly constrained, with only a few signs that violate proposed conditions. Three hypotheses to account for handshape restrictions on the non-dominant hand in highly complex signs are tested. Findings show that a universal unmarked set accounts for most of these handshapes; a language-specific unmarked set does no better; and a constraint on markedness at the featural level essentially accounts for all the signs. Further analyses discover that a preference for unmarked handshapes in the most complex signs extends to all two-handed signs to some degree. Finally, a phonotactic preference for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;G/1&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;handshape on the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;dominant&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;hand in complex signs is uncovered. Some evidence suggests that this tendency may surface in other languages as well.&lt;/p&gt;
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