. Introduction. How do children learn a sign language?. e path of sign language
development.. e pre-linguistic stage.. e one-and two-word stages.. e differentiation stage …

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 chapter presents a detailed overview of sign language phonology. Sign language
interaction is made up of different types of signs. These different types have been …

Purpose Sign language users recruit physical properties of visual motion to convey linguistic
information. Research on American Sign Language (ASL) indicates that signers …

Gestures produced by users of spoken languages differ from signs produced by users of
sign languages in that gestures are more typically ad hoc and idiosyncratic, while signs are …

This dissertation uses corpus data from ASL and Libras (Brazilian Sign Language), to
investigate the distribution of a series of static and dynamic handshapes across the two …

The ability to convey information is a fundamental property of communicative signals. For
sign languages, which are overtly produced with multiple, completely visible articulators, the …

There is an ongoing debate about whether there exists a grammatical distinction between
first-person and non-first person in signed languages, namely American Sign Language …

Both eye tracking and motion capture technologies are nowadays frequently used in human
sciences, although both technologies are usually used separately. However, measuring …

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