How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on
the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without …

Sign languages play an essential role in the cognitive and social development of the deaf,
consisting of a natural form of communication and being a symbol of identity and culture …

. 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 …

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its
contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language …

Phonetic reduction arises in the course of typical language production, when language
users produce a less clearly articulated form of a word. An important factor that affects …

The usage-based framework considers linguistic structure to be emergent from how human
languages are used, and shaped by domain-general cognitive processes. This paper …

The impact of adverse listening conditions on spoken language perception is well
established, but the role of suboptimal viewing conditions on signed language processing is …

This chapter presents a detailed overview of sign language phonology. Sign language
interaction is made up of different types of signs. These different types have been …

Signed languages are similar to spoken languages in the overall organisation of their
grammars, displaying a prosodic level of organisation that is not isomorphic to the syntactic …

This chapter offers an overview of signed language linguistics. We begin with a historical
perspective. A brief description of American Sign Language (ASL) provides the background …