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Ma thesis problems
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eaddicte
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Ma thesis problems
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Hello,
My name �s Mark. I �ve been attending MA seminar devoted to the subject of language acquisition from the perspective of Chomskyan linguistics and I �m struggling with the problem of coming up with my MA thesis. I �ve read some books about Universal Grammar, Language Faculty but still haven �t got any ideas on what to write my MA about. One thing that I �ve got interested in is American Sign Language, but I don �t know how to connect this subject with Universal Grammar (my advisor says that the thesis must be strictly connected with UG). I �d like to know if there �s anyone who could give me some hints or advices that would help me somehow ;) In return, I can send you 1-2 gb of English teaching materials and pdf books via e-mail ;)
Please contact me via private message.
Thanks for reading,
Mark.
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25 Sep 2011
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Jayho
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Hi Mark
Your topic sounds very complex.
I can�t really help much apart to let you know that I know of a deaf teenager who primarily relies on sign language and whose written grammar is very poor. This teenager had to receive extra tuition in written English for their final school exams.
I know very little about sign language but I guess grammatically it is very different to the grammar most of us think about.
Good luck!
Jayho |
26 Sep 2011
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almaz
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Margaret Deuchar from Bangor University has done some interesting work on extending the concept of diglossia to include sign language. In fact, she contributed to a book on Chomsky with a paper entitled Sign languages as creoles and Chomsky �s notion of universal grammar (from Noam Chomsky: Consensus and Controversy (Falmer Press, 1987)). Your advisor should be able to point you in the direction of a copy.
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26 Sep 2011
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