The literature regarding the phonetics and phonology of sign language is growing rapidly. Unfortunately, many current proposals draw only minimal comparisons between signed and spoken languages. While one might expect phonetic realization to be different across modalities, the Innateness Hypothesis suggests tha
This paper explores three universal tendencies in spoken language acquisition: consonant and vowel h...
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the react...
Although the sign languages in use today are full human languages, certain of the features they sha...
Sign and spoken languages differ primarily in their perceptual channel, vision vs. audition. This ‘m...
This chapter addresses two issues that concern sign language phonology. The first issue is how iconi...
Comparing phonology in spoken language and sign language reveals that core properties such as featur...
Linguistic research has identified abstract properties that seem to be shared by all languages—such ...
We explore two models of the nonpreference hand in sign language phonology. These models are fully d...
The present paper reviews the main approaches developed for the linguistic analysis of sign languag...
It has been nearly forty years since serious investigation of natural sign languages began to show t...
While most natural languages rely on speech, humans can spontaneously generate comparable linguistic...
Sign languages are visual-gestural communication systems with a great potential for iconic structure...
This paper uses American Sign Language to explore the concept of the sign language syllable and how ...
For years, the study of spoken languages, on the basis of written and then also oral productions, w...
The paper considers sign language phonological features in the context of the basic question about t...
This paper explores three universal tendencies in spoken language acquisition: consonant and vowel h...
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the react...
Although the sign languages in use today are full human languages, certain of the features they sha...
Sign and spoken languages differ primarily in their perceptual channel, vision vs. audition. This ‘m...
This chapter addresses two issues that concern sign language phonology. The first issue is how iconi...
Comparing phonology in spoken language and sign language reveals that core properties such as featur...
Linguistic research has identified abstract properties that seem to be shared by all languages—such ...
We explore two models of the nonpreference hand in sign language phonology. These models are fully d...
The present paper reviews the main approaches developed for the linguistic analysis of sign languag...
It has been nearly forty years since serious investigation of natural sign languages began to show t...
While most natural languages rely on speech, humans can spontaneously generate comparable linguistic...
Sign languages are visual-gestural communication systems with a great potential for iconic structure...
This paper uses American Sign Language to explore the concept of the sign language syllable and how ...
For years, the study of spoken languages, on the basis of written and then also oral productions, w...
The paper considers sign language phonological features in the context of the basic question about t...
This paper explores three universal tendencies in spoken language acquisition: consonant and vowel h...
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the react...
Although the sign languages in use today are full human languages, certain of the features they sha...