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 …

Academic interest in sign languages in the global South, especially those that developed in
small signing communities has grown rapidly in recent years. Many basic questions about …

One of the fundamental issues for a language is its capacity to express argument structure
unambiguously. This study presents evidence for the emergence and the incremental …

This dissertation reports on a study on the acquisition of Sign Language of the Netherlands
(Nederlandse Gebarentaal, NGT) as a second or additional language in adult learners of …

This special issue of Sign Language Studies is focused on recent developments in the study
of rural sign languages, which have arisen from the spontaneous interactions between deaf …

Over the last decade, iterated learning studies have provided compelling evidence for the
claim that linguistic structure can emerge from non‐structured input, through the process of …

A universally acknowledged, core property of language is its complexity, at each level of
structure–sounds, words, phrases, clauses, utterances, and higher levels of discourse. How …

Human languages can express an infinite number of thoughts despite having a finite set of
words and rules. This is due, in part, to recursive structures, which allow us to embed one …

In my dissertation, I focus on the documentation and comparison of indigenous sign
languages in Yucatán, Mexico. I conducted fieldwork in four Yucatec Maya communities with …