Thread by @c_borstell

3rd keynote of the day: Deanna Gagne from @LingdeptGU on bimodal bilingualism. #LingCologne

Code-blending is the simultaneous productions of (aspects of) an utterance in sign and speech.

This is not the same as SimCom🚫, but something that can reveal the structure of and interaction between languages. #LingCologne

But what happens if one of the two languages still has an emerging grammar — as in bimodals using Nicaraguan Sign Language? #LingCologne

On the regularization of space in NSL, Deanna asks the audience to do what she does. She raises her right hand. ✋ Most people raise their right hand too. ✋✋✋ "It doesn't matter, but over time you might converge on a conventionalized way." #LingCologne

Personally I raised my left, but mostly because I'm live tweeting with my right (you're welcome).
#LingCologne

Whereas cohort 2 of NSL innovate new word orders, CODAs with cohort 1 parents only use the word orders represented in their parents! #LingCologne

... and CODAs are much more prone to using SVO than the deaf signers. Hypothesis is that this is an influence from Spanish (bilingual transfer)! #LingCologne

NSL may be developing its own preferred word order (SOV), but CODAs seem to be resorting to an order familiar from Spanish (SVO). #LingCologne

Future work will look at the data in more detail, adding more variables to the coding (thematic roles, etc) to explore the effects further. Yay data! #LingCologne

Concluding with a teaser for her presentation at #TISLR13 (more details there) and acknowledging mentors on the project: @MarieCoppola68, @ann_senghas & @DLilloMartin

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