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. Infants …

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 …

What is Linguistics? How do languages work? Why is this important? Answering these
questions and more, Linguistics: An Introduction covers all the key topics that you will need …

Are you curious to know what all human languages have in common and in what ways they
differ? Do you want to find out how language can be used to trace different peoples and their …

The very nature of sign languages in society is such that all of the areas of sociolinguistics
are relevant to their study (Schembri and Lucas 2015; Roy and Metzger 2014). Sign …

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

There is a growing trend of documenting the variety and complexity of signing practices in
the context of diverse sociolinguistic ecologies in which the practices occur in different parts …

Names: Tusting, Karin, 1973–editor. Title: The Routledge handbook of linguistic
ethnography/edited by Karin Tusting. Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York …

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 …

The term homesign has been used to describe the signing of deaf individuals who have not
had sustained access to the linguistic resources of a named language. Early studies of child …