… world is now convinced that sign languages are real languages in every sense of the term.
If … on sign languages in this volume. Each sign language would be seen as a language like …

… that the study of natural sign languages can enhance our understanding of what language is.
… In looking at natural sign languages, which are transmitted in the visual-gestural mode, we …

… This article concerns the natural sign languages that evolve in and are used by … focused on
the use of a natural sign language. As languages, natural sign languages display many of the …

… sign languages, unlike pantomime, have grammar. Moreover, it is a common belief that there
is just one universal sign language, … sign languages. Where there is a Deaf community, a …

… The natural sign languages discussed in this article arise when deaf people converge and
form a community. Often this happens in conjunction with the development of a school for …

… Since signed languages exhibit all the fundamental linguistic properties of natural language,
we believe that tools and theories of Natural Language Processing (NLP) are crucial …

… master key aspects of human language structure, even when … input, for example, natural
signed languages. In other words, … we humans do with language, be it signed or spoken. This …

… complete in all three aspects uttered one after the other to express a single lexical item, may
or may not be characteristic of natural sign languages; it is certain at least that this means of …

… In summary, sociolinguistic studies of natural signed languages have determined that they
demonstrate strikingly similar patterns of change, variation, and social and cultural use that …

… spoken language and American Sign Language (ASL) as the signed language. However,
in … basis of the relationship between spoken and signed language in SC is obscure, we …