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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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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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Chapter Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics [PDF]
, 2020 This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from ...
Kusters, Annelies +3 more
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The first signs of language: Phonological development in British Sign Language [PDF]
Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007 A total of 1,018 signs in one deaf child's naturalistic interaction with her deaf mother, between the ages of 19 and 24 months were analyzed. This study summarizes regular modification processes in the phonology of the child sign's handshape, location, movement, and prosody.
Morgan, Gary +2 more
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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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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002 Do the visuomanual modality and the structure of the sequence of numbers in sign language have an impact on the development of counting and its use by deaf children? The sequence of number signs in Belgian French Sign Language follows a base-5 rule while the number sequence in oral French follows a base-10 rule.
Leybaert, Jacqueline, Van Cutsem, M.N.
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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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