Sign Language phonology

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Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.

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Full title :Sign Language phonology / Diane Brentari.

Summary

Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019
Edition:Paperback edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 333 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107534094, 1107534097, 9781107113473, 1107113474
oclc:on1296942597
LC Classification:HV2474
Dewey Decimal:419

1 Introduction: Sign Language versus Gesture -- Sign Language versus Speech -- 1.1 Introduction to the Topics of This Volume -- 1.2 Historical Perspectives on Sign Language Phonology -- 1.3 Sign Language and Gesture -- 1.3.1 Neuroimaging -- 1.3.2 Conventionalization -- 1.4 Sign Language and Speech at the Word Level -- 1.4.1 The Core Lexicon -- Contrast beyond Minimal Pairs -- 1.4.2 The Spatial Lexicon

1.4.3 The Non-native Lexicon : Fingerspelling, Mouthings, and the Foreign Component -- 1.5 New Theoretical Contributions to Sign Language Phonology -- 1.5.1 Optimality Theory -- 1.5.2 Cognitive and Usage-Based Approaches -- 1.6 Summary -- 1.7 Further Reading -- 2 Modality Effects -- 2.1 Why Is Communication Modality So Important? -- 2.2 Signal Differences -- 2.3 Phonetic Differences: Perception -- 2.4 Phonetic Differences: Articulation -- 2.5 Complexity -- 2.5.1 Articulatory Complexity -- 2.5.2 Frequency as Complexity -- 2.5.3 Complexity as Expressed by Order of Acquisition

2.5.4 Complexity as Expressed by Phonological Structure -- 2.6 Prominence: Single versus Multiple Oscillators -- 2.7 Modality Effects on Phonology -- 2.7.1 Movements, Segments, Features: How Are They Organized? …