A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its
contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language …

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach
in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to …

For decades, a small set of major world languages have formed the basis of the vast majority
of linguistic theory. However, minoritized languages can also provide fascinating …

We investigate the nature of torso articulation in human expression by analyzing its role in
signing and dancing in six videos concerning the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a …

Stephen Anderson warns that approaches to linguistic universals that derive facts about
language from the structure of the Language faculty or from external forces shaping the …

This article presents a study of errors made by hearing adult L2 learners of Swiss German
Sign Language (Deutschschweizerische Gebärdensprache, DSGS). As part of a statistical …

While there has been some prior work on what characteristics can increase or decrease the
phonetic prominence of a sign in a signed language, there is not yet an easily obtainable …

Echo phonology was originally proposed to account for obligatory coordination of manual
and mouth articulations observed in several sign languages. However, previous research …

In sign languages, the task of communicating a shape involves drawing in the air with one
moving hand (Method One) or two (Method Two). Since the movement path is iconic …

Duality of patterning, which refers to the fact that in languages a limited number of
meaningless units combine to create an unlimited number of meaningful units, is considered …