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A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language acquisition and language creation. Working on sign languages not only provides important new insights …
Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.
Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.
Could a chimpanzee raised from infancy by a human family bridge the gap between species--and change the way we think about the boundaries between animal and human? Here is the strange and moving account of an experiment intended to answer these questions, and of the chimp who wa…
Accompanies the popular book by Janice H. Humphrey, So You Want to be an Interpreter, used by many interpreter preparation programs. This study guide contains guided learning activties, study questions, and supplemental video clips which feature many highly qualified interpreter…
This study guide contains guided learning activities, study questions and supplemental video slips to enrich the learning journey of students in diverse learning environments.
"This book is intended in part to provide linguists and cognitive scientists who do not know sign language with a point of entry into the study of sign language phonology. At the same time, it presents a comprehensive theory of American Sign Language (ASL) phonology, while revie…
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Foreword /Glenn B. Anderson --The sociohistorical foundation of Black ASL --Research methods --Signers' perceptions of Black ASL --Phonological variation --Variation in syntax and discourse --The effects of language contact --Lexical variation. "People who first encounter sign …
"People who first encounter sign language often ask if deaf people around the world sign the same language. Frequently, they are surprised to learn that there are different sign languages in different nations worldwide, as well as variations of these languages. These variations …
"[This book], originally published in 2011, presents the first sociohistorical and linguistic study of Black American Sign Language. Based on the findings of the Black ASL Project, which undertook this unprecedented research, Hidden Treasure documents the stories and language of…
This major collective research project in generative grammar provides a systematic and empirical look at the various functional heads found in the sentence and in other phrases in a variety of world languages. Guglielmo Cinque presents the first results of a long term research p…