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Lexical intensifiers in Kenyan Sign Language: Use, motivation, & etymology

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Description: Conference presentation video for WOCAL 10, June 2021. https://osf.io/meetings/WOCAL10/

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Sign languages use diverse strategies for marking degrees of intensity (e.g., ‘slightly cold’, ‘very cold’), with prosodic modifications and facial markers presumably being the most widely used strategies. In this study, part of a larger project documenting the lexicon of Kenyan Sign Language, we focus on another strategy for showing intensity in KSL: the use of individual words like ‘very’ that m…

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African sign languageshttps://osf.io/meetings/WOCAL10/intensifiersKenyaKenyan Sign Languagelexiconsign languagestalkWOCAL

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