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1Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication, Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The Netherlands. c.l.g.devos@tilburguniversity.eduhttps://elisa.uvt.nl.
Abstract:
Homesign is a visual-gestural form of communication that emerges between deaf individuals and their hearing interlocutors in the absence of a conventional sign language. I argue here that homesign conversations form a perfect testcase to study the extent to which pragmatic competence is foundational rather than derived from our linguistic abilities.
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