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Sign Language Typology: The Contribution of Rural Sign Languages [PDF]
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2015 Since the 1990s, the field of sign language typology has shown that sign languages exhibit typological variation at all relevant levels of linguistic description. These initial typological comparisons were heavily skewed toward the urban sign languages of developed countries, mostly in the Western world.
de Vos, C., Pfau, R.
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Sign language research in Ghana: An overview of indigenous and foreign-based sign languages
Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2021 The recognition of sign language as a full-fledged human language with linguistics description has led to several research works in both theoretical and applied linguistics considering different aspects.
Mary Edward, George Akanlig-Pare
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SIGN LANGUAGES AS CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS IN COMMUNICATION OF DEAF PEOPLE [PDF]
Езиков свят, 2023 Sign languages are conventional communication systems that arise spontaneously in all deaf communities around the world. The current article offers a glimpse into the problem of the essence of a natural human language, which exists in a physical ...
Diyana Georgieva
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF SIGN LANGUAGES
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2022 The object of the research is to analyze sign languages which have been an essential aspect of communication throughout human history of the disabled. It aims to examine the main stages of development of sign languages.
Dina A. Galieva, Liliya V. Naurazbaeva
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Lexical comprehension within and across sign languages of Belgium, China and the Netherlands
Glossa, 2023 There are hundreds of known sign languages around the world today, distinct languages each with its own historical and cultural context. Nevertheless, it is well known among signers who move through international spaces and across signing communities ...
Carl Börstell
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Lexical overlap in young sign languages from Guatemala
Glossa, 2022 In communities without older standardized sign languages, deaf people develop their own sign languages and strategies for communicating. These languages vary across several dimensions, including their age, their distribution within the wider spoken ...
Laura Horton
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Deaf children need language, not (just) speech [PDF]
, 2019 Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children need to master at least one language (spoken or signed) to reach their full potential. Providing access to a natural sign language supports this goal.
Caselli, Naomi +2 more
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A video coding system for sign language communication at low bit rates [PDF]
, 2004 The ability to communicate remotely through the use of video as promised by wireless networks and already practised over fixed networks, is for deaf people as important as voice telephony is for hearing people. Sign languages are visual-spatial languages
Agrafiotis, D +5 more
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INTERLANGUAGE FEATURES OF SIGN LANGUAGES (ACCORDING TO THE MATERIAL OF GESTURES IN SIGN FORM)
Современные информационные технологии и IT-образование, 2019 In this paper we investigate the features of gestures deaf people use in their national Sign Languages. In Sign Languages, almost every word has a sign equivalent.
Maria A. Myasoedova +1 more
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IEEE Access, 2021 Sign languages are used by the deaf and mute community of the world. These are gesture based languages where the subjects use hands and facial expressions to perform different gestures.
Uzma Farooq +4 more
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