MLA Commons | Justin M. Power | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/justinmpower/activity/ Activity feed for Justin M. Power. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:04:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 b20b0a1cd7d852817d910466c4d8414e Justin M. Power deposited Did deaf education and the emergence of American Sign Language trigger the decline of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language? in the group Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784976/ Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:24:11 -0400 In discussions of the history of American Sign Language (ASL), a village sign language—Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL)—has been identified as a possible contributor to ASL and to its differentiation from French Sign Language (LSF; cf. Groce 1985: 73-74, Lane et al 2011: 76, Poole Nash 2015: 611). On this account, MVSL contributed to ASL t…[Read more]

]]> 0 d784cb7a6a5dd72ece6c3570c6371462 Justin M. Power deposited Did deaf education and the emergence of American Sign Language trigger the decline of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language? in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784975/ Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:24:09 -0400 In discussions of the history of American Sign Language (ASL), a village sign language—Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL)—has been identified as a possible contributor to ASL and to its differentiation from French Sign Language (LSF; cf. Groce 1985: 73-74, Lane et al 2011: 76, Poole Nash 2015: 611). On this account, MVSL contributed to ASL t…[Read more]

]]> 0 927e9cd43ffb4336a6926cebbcfa4a6e Justin M. Power deposited Young children and the emergence of ASL: The age distribution of students at the American School for the Deaf, 1817–1867 in the group Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784974/ Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:23:45 -0400 Young children are thought to play a unique role in the emergence and evolution of language. In research on language acquisition by a deaf child of late learners of ASL as well as in research on the emergence of new signed languages, young children have shown the ability to impose systematicity on relatively less systematic linguistic input…[Read more]

]]> 0 7728f095039dd9a71437e11e21b8c9f4 Justin M. Power deposited Young children and the emergence of ASL: The age distribution of students at the American School for the Deaf, 1817–1867 in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784973/ Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:23:41 -0400 Young children are thought to play a unique role in the emergence and evolution of language. In research on language acquisition by a deaf child of late learners of ASL as well as in research on the emergence of new signed languages, young children have shown the ability to impose systematicity on relatively less systematic linguistic input…[Read more]

]]> 0 99ac7d3d713b17274c0bfde33c9301eb Justin M. Power deposited Did deaf education and the emergence of American Sign Language trigger the decline of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784958/ Fri, 24 Jun 2022 20:58:27 -0400 In discussions of the history of American Sign Language (ASL), a village sign language—Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL)—has been identified as a possible contributor to ASL and to its differentiation from French Sign Language (LSF; cf. Groce 1985: 73-74, Lane et al 2011: 76, Poole Nash 2015: 611). On this account, MVSL contributed to ASL t…[Read more]

]]> 0 dea02d1676075a6edad8e8f7c0c959c7 Justin M Power deposited Young children and the emergence of ASL: The age distribution of students at the American School for the Deaf, 1817–1867 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784957/ Fri, 24 Jun 2022 20:51:00 -0400 Young children are thought to play a unique role in the emergence and evolution of language. In research on language acquisition by a deaf child of late learners of ASL as well as in research on the emergence of new signed languages, young children have shown the ability to impose systematicity on relatively less systematic linguistic input…[Read more]

]]> 0 05a40d1e7f3a2234112af6b39cf56ed7 Justin M. Power's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784955/ Fri, 24 Jun 2022 20:37:29 -0400 0 f426e678fd1f909e2aaccf1b8e480bbd Justin M Power deposited Untangling vertical and horizontal processes in the evolution of handshapes in the group Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1662464/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:26:23 -0400 This brief blog post discusses qualitative methods for identifying horizontal processes in the evolution of sign language handshapes in manual alphabets using phylogenetic network methods.

]]> 0 f426e678fd1f909e2aaccf1b8e480bbd Justin M Power deposited Untangling vertical and horizontal processes in the evolution of handshapes in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1662463/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:26:23 -0400 This brief blog post discusses qualitative methods for identifying horizontal processes in the evolution of sign language handshapes in manual alphabets using phylogenetic network methods.

]]> 0 846413693af2851115ddf80058b7c886 Justin M Power deposited Untangling vertical and horizontal processes in the evolution of handshapes https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1662395/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 18:01:11 -0400 This brief blog post discusses qualitative methods for identifying horizontal processes in the evolution of sign language handshapes in manual alphabets using phylogenetic network methods.

]]> 0 a21cecd0eaece7ff5e4fa09b1152e7d2 Justin M Power deposited Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages in the group Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643274/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:25:27 -0400 While the evolution of spoken languages is well understood and has been studied using traditional historical comparative methods as well as newer computational phylogenetic methods, evolutionary processes resulting in the diversity of contemporary sign languages are poorly understood, and scholars have been largely unsuccessful in grouping sign…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc8a8e3baa9649ad86fda8528c1c60e9 Justin M Power deposited Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642984/ Fri, 21 Jun 2019 18:54:32 -0400 While the evolution of spoken languages is well understood and has been studied using traditional historical comparative methods as well as newer computational phylogenetic methods, evolutionary processes resulting in the diversity of contemporary sign languages are poorly understood, and scholars have been largely unsuccessful in grouping sign…[Read more]

]]> 0 bef116686cbdb223c844435ca55026dd Justin M. Power's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642858/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:00:59 -0400 0