This study explores whether American Sign Language (ASL) users exhibit frequency effects
on two-sign combinations as observed in spoken languages. Studies on spoken languages …

The visual-manual modality of sign languages renders them a unique test case for language
acquisition and processing theories. In this commentary the authors describe evidence from …

American Sign Language shares with spoken languages derivational and inflectional
morphological processes, including compounding, reduplication, incorporation, and …

This article examines variation in American Sign Language (ASL) signs produced with a 1
handshape, which include signs of nearly all grammatical classes. Multivariate analysis of …

Across sign languages, nouns can be derived from verbs through morphophonological
changes in movement by (1) movement reduplication and size reduction or (2) size …

In this chapter, we argue that the usage-based notion of recycling of sequential units, as it
has been articulated in the study of multi-word expressions in spoken languages, provides a …

In spoken languages, disfluent speech, narrative effects, discourse information, and phrase
position may influence the lengthening of segments beyond their typical duration. In sign …

When signers communicate with one another, they use some signs, such as finish, more
frequently than others, such as eagle. The frequency of occurrence affects both the way that …

Over the history of research on sign languages, much scholarship has highlighted the
pervasive presence of signs whose forms relate to their meaning in a non-arbitrary way. The …

This study examines sign lowering as a form of phonetic reduction in American Sign
Language. Phonetic reduction occurs in the course of normal language production, when …