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Metaphor in Sign Languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Metaphor abounds in both sign and spoken languages. However, in sign languages, languages in the visual-manual modality, metaphors work a bit differently than they do in spoken languages.
Irit Meir, Irit Meir, Ariel Cohen
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Discourses of prejudice in the professions: the case of sign languages. [PDF]
J Med Ethics, 2017 There is no evidence that learning a natural human language is cognitively harmful to children. To the contrary, multilingualism has been argued to be beneficial to all.
Humphries T +6 more
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New Perspectives on the Neurobiology of Sign Languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 The first 40 years of research on the neurobiology of sign languages (1960–2000) established that the same key left hemisphere brain regions support both signed and spoken languages, based primarily on evidence from signers with brain injury and at the ...
Karen Emmorey
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Sociolinguistic Typology and Sign Languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This paper examines the possible relationship between proposed social determinants of morphological ‘complexity’ and how this contributes to linguistic diversity, specifically via the typological nature of the sign languages of deaf communities.
Adam Schembri +3 more
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Visual prosody in Korean Sign Language: (non)manual cues for boundary and prominence [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThis study examines how manual and nonmanual features contribute to prosodic marking in Korean Sign Language (KSL), particularly for prominence and Accentual Phrase (AP) boundaries.
Jungah Lee +3 more
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The Influence of the Visual Modality on Language Structure and Conventionalization: Insights From Sign Language and Gesture [PDF]
, 2015 For humans, the ability to communicate and use language is instantiated not only in the vocal modality but also in the visual modality. The main examples of this are sign languages and (co-speech) gestures.
Pamela Perniss +2 more
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Facial expressions, emotions, and sign languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Facial expressions are used by humans to convey various types of meaning in various contexts. The range of meanings spans basic possibly innate socio-emotional concepts such as ‘surprise’ to complex and culture specific concepts such as ‘carelessly’. The
Eeva Anita Elliott +2 more
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Order of the major constituents in sign languages: implications for all language. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2014 A survey of reports of sign order from 42 sign languages leads to a handful of generalizations. Two accounts emerge, one amodal and the other modal. We argue that universal pressures are at work with respect to some generalizations, but that pressure ...
Napoli DJ, Sutton-Spence R.
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The Vulnerability of Emerging Sign Languages: (E)merging Sign Languages?
Languages, 2022 Emerging sign languages offer linguists an opportunity to observe language emergence in real time, far beyond the capabilities of spoken language studies.
Marah Jaraisy, Rose Stamp
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Languages, 2022 The emergence of sign language is of special interest because sign languages are the only human languages that can emerge de novo at any time [...]
Wendy Sandler +2 more
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