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

When describing variation at the lexical level in sign languages, researchers often
distinguish between phonological and lexical variants, using the following principle: if two …

How do new words arise in a sign language? We present an empirical study of newly
formed words in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). Five signers were asked to …

Differentiating letter shapes accurately is a core competence for any reader. Are letter
shapes as distinctive as they could be? The visual shapes of letters, contrary to the …

Since the beginning of the phonological study of sign language in the 1960s, it has become
increasingly clear that sign language, though silent and expressed by means of gestures …

In this study, we conducted a pseudosign (nonce sign) repetition task with 22 children (mean
age: 6; 04) acquiring American Sign Language (ASL) as a first language (L1) from deaf …

This paper addresses gradability in American Sign Language (ASL). The literature has
argued that languages may or may not introduce degree variables, ie, there is cross …

In this work, we address structural, iconic and social dimensions of the emergence of
phonological systems in two emerging sign languages. A comparative analysis is conducted …

The study of articulatory complexity has proven to yield useful insights into the phonological
mechanisms of spoken languages. In sign languages, this type of knowledge is scarcely …

This paper provides an overview of all the meaningful sub-sign form units (form-meaning
units; FMUs) in lexical signs in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). We investigated …