Iconicity has traditionally been considered an objective, fixed, unidimensional property of language forms, often operationalized as transparency for experimental purposes. Within a …
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 …
This dissertation is the study of a sign system used by the Máíjùnà, an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon. The properties of the signing community are not …
O Corrine, A Benjamin, W Erin - Gesture, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
A renewed interest in understanding the role of iconicity in the structure and processing of signed languages is hampered by the conflation of iconicity and transparency in the …