Sign Language Phonology
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
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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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- Publication Date:2019.
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
Notes
5.3.2 Dispersion and Handshape Morphology within the Phonemic Space
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- Description:1 online resource (354 pages)
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- ISBN:9781108761925, 1108761925, 9781316286401, 1316286401
- oclc:on1129190894
- LC Classification:HV2474
- Dewey Decimal:419
Table of Contents
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 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 Promin…
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