Add to ORKGLimiting ourselves to the study of only one sign language can be dangerous linguistically as well as politically. The study and comparison of sign languages around the world can give us insights into how language is structured, how the channel of communication affects language structure, and what is possible in the signing modality. Data from American Sign Language, NihonSyuwa, and Chinese Sign Language are discussed to illustrate these points
The present paper reviews the main approaches developed for the linguistic analysis of sign languag...
Linguistic research has identified abstract properties that seem to be shared by all languages—such ...
This chapter stands outside of the theme of “advances in sign language development of deaf children....
Although sign language-using communities exist in all areas of the world, few sign languages have be...
It has been nearly forty years since serious investigation of natural sign languages began to show t...
It has been argued that properties of the visual-gestural modality impose a homogenizing effect on s...
For years, the study of spoken languages, on the basis of written and then also oral productions, w...
ii It is commonly believed that sign language is a universal language. However, linguists researchin...
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the react...
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constru...
The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to scientific research on sign languag...
For a long time, sign languages -the languages used mainly within Deaf communities- were, at best, c...
This volume shares findings and innovations from the MULTISIGN project ("Multilingual behaviour in s...
The research question asked here is whether the construct of language dominance in the spoken modali...
A range of factors predicting variation in American Sign Language (ASL) have been suggested in the l...
The present paper reviews the main approaches developed for the linguistic analysis of sign languag...
Linguistic research has identified abstract properties that seem to be shared by all languages—such ...
This chapter stands outside of the theme of “advances in sign language development of deaf children....
Although sign language-using communities exist in all areas of the world, few sign languages have be...
It has been nearly forty years since serious investigation of natural sign languages began to show t...
It has been argued that properties of the visual-gestural modality impose a homogenizing effect on s...
For years, the study of spoken languages, on the basis of written and then also oral productions, w...
ii It is commonly believed that sign language is a universal language. However, linguists researchin...
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the react...
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constru...
The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to scientific research on sign languag...
For a long time, sign languages -the languages used mainly within Deaf communities- were, at best, c...
This volume shares findings and innovations from the MULTISIGN project ("Multilingual behaviour in s...
The research question asked here is whether the construct of language dominance in the spoken modali...
A range of factors predicting variation in American Sign Language (ASL) have been suggested in the l...
The present paper reviews the main approaches developed for the linguistic analysis of sign languag...
Linguistic research has identified abstract properties that seem to be shared by all languages—such ...
This chapter stands outside of the theme of “advances in sign language development of deaf children....