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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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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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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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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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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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Ten things you should know about sign languages. [PDF]
Curr Dir Psychol Sci, 2023 The 10 things you should know about sign languages are the following: (1) Sign languages have phonology and poetry. (2) Sign languages vary in their linguistic structure and family history but share some typological features due to their shared biology ...
Emmorey K.
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Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages: Progress and Problems. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 In contrast to scholars and signers in the nineteenth century, William Stokoe conceived of American Sign Language (ASL) as a unique linguistic tradition with roots in nineteenth-century langue des signes française, a conception that is apparent in his ...
Power JM.
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Acquisition of Sign Languages. [PDF]
Annu Rev Linguist, 2021 Natural sign languages of deaf communities are acquired on the same time scale as that of spoken languages if children have access to fluent signers providing input from birth.
Lillo-Martin D, Henner J.
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Visual Iconicity Across Sign Languages: Large-Scale Automated Video Analysis of Iconic Articulators and Locations. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2018 We use automatic processing of 120,000 sign videos in 31 different sign languages to show a cross-linguistic pattern for two types of iconic form–meaning relationships in the visual modality. First, we demonstrate that the degree of inherent plurality of
Östling R, Börstell C, Courtaux S.
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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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