{"pk":27485,"title":"ANCHORING is amodal: evidence from a signed language.","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Modern linguistic theory posits the existence of universal constraints. But whether these constraints concern lan-guage structure, generally, or speech, specifically, is unknown. To address this question, here we ask whether the constraintsidentified in spoken languages transfer to sign languages. ANCHORING (McCarthy & Prince, 1993) is a putatively universalconstraint on reduplication. ANCHORING requires that the final element of a suffixed reduplicant match the final element ofthe base (e.g., pana ‘chase’––>panana, ‘run’ not panapa). Here, we examine whether ANCHORING is likewise operative in asigned language. In our experiments, native ASL signers rated novel reduplicated forms: either ones consistent or inconsistentwith ANCHORING (i.e., ABB vs. ABA, where A and B are syllables). Results showed that signers reliably favored ABB formsover ABA. These findings show for the first time that ANCHORING constrains a sign language. This conclusion is consistentwith the existence of amodal linguistic principles.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9029f7xg","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Qatherine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dana","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northeastern University","department":""},{"first_name":"Diane","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brentari","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Chicago","department":""},{"first_name":"Outi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bat-El","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tel-Aviv University","department":""},{"first_name":"Iris","middle_name":"","last_name":"Berent","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northeastern University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27485/galley/17121/download/"}]}