This is a vocabulary research manual. It aims to give you the background knowledge
necessary to design rigorous and effective research studies into the behavior of L1 and L2 …

Sign language in action is a term that we have coined to encompass how sign languages
are used in everyday life. In Chapter 2, we framed the notion of sign language in action …

. 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 …

It has become increasingly clear that current threats to global linguistic diversity are not
restricted to the loss of spoken languages. Signed languages are vulnerable to familiar …

Although New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) is used by a closely networked national Deaf
community, it exhibits considerable variation in the lexicon that has been anecdotally and …

This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and
social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and …

Editorial board: Carlo Geraci, Rachel McKee, Victoria Nyst, Marianne Rossi Stumpf, Felix
Sze, Sandra Wood Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has …

This paper briefly describes some issues concerning education in signed languages insofar
as the availability of data permits at this time. In order to contextualise the discussion, we …

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 …

Abstract Irish Sign Language uses a one-handed alphabet in which each fingerspelled letter
has a unique combination of handshape, orientation, and, in a few cases, path movement …