Do signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way?
Here we compare how signers of five Western deaf signed languages coordinate fully …

A new phonological system is becoming conventional across a group of DeafBlind signers
in the United States who communicate via reciprocal, tactile channels—a practice known as …

Sign language lexicons incorporate phonological specifications. Evidence from emerging
sign languages suggests that phonological structure emerges gradually in a new language …

Young children1 who are deaf, and cannot hear the spoken language in their environment,
and who also are not exposed to accessible linguistic input2 or medical intervention …

This chapter aims at showing, using qualitative examples, that Yucatec Maya
communication relies on numerous non-verbal strategies used in everyday interactions to …

It has been suggested that social structure affects the degree of lexical variation in sign
language emergence. Evidence from signing communities supports this, with smaller, more …

Observations that iconicity diminishes over time in sign languages pose a puzzle: Why
should something so evidently useful and functional decrease? Using an archival dataset of …

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 …

A-morphous Morphology is a morpheme-less theory of word-internal structure (Anderson
1992). Under this approach, derivational patterns are analyzed using Word Formation …

This paper presents a semiotic study of the distribution of a type of size depiction in lexical
signs in six sign languages. Recently, a growing number of studies are focusing on the …