Current views about language are dominated by the idea of arbitrary connections between
linguistic form and meaning. However, if we look beyond the more familiar Indo-European …

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 …

Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration
opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human …

Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be
able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children …

This study, first published in 1988, examines cases of interaction of morphology and syntax
in American Sign Language and proposes that clause structure and syntactic phenomena …

What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not
limited to hearing and speech, that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from …

American Sign Language (ASL) is a fully grammaticized language, not a pantomimic
communication system, and it displays the various grammatical characteristics typically …

Sign languages have two strikingly different kinds of morphological structure: sequential and
simultaneous. The simultaneous morphology of two unrelated sign languages, American …

American Sign Language: Linguistic and applied dimensions, 2nd ed. American Sign Language:
Linguistic and applied dimensions, 2nd ed. Citation Wilbur, RB (1987). American Sign …

This is a book primarily about signed languages, but it is not a book targeted just at the
community of linguists and psycholinguists who specialize in research on signed languages …