ASL-LEX is a publicly available, large-scale lexical database for American Sign Language
(ASL). We report on the expanded database (ASL-LEX 2.0) that contains 2,723 ASL signs …

This article contains a literature review of evidence of large prosodic domains that
correspond to syntactic units such as a clause or a sentence. In particular, different phonetic …

What you are holding (or reading digitally) is the first comprehensive descriptive grammar of
Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse Gebarentaal, NGT). It is a unique …

In spoken interactions, interlocutors carefully plan, and time their utterances, minimizing
gaps and overlaps between consecutive turns. Cross-linguistic comparison has indicated …

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 …

In this article we investigate topics in NGT (Sign Language of the Netherlands). NGT is a
topic-prominent language in which sentences start with the topic (s) and the remainder of the …

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 …

This article seeks to explore a prosodic explanation for the frequent occurrence of pointing
signs phrase-finally. Corpus data from Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) show that …

This dissertation is about the communicative ecologies (socio-cultural circumstances) of
children who are insulated from traditional linguistic input because they are deaf and cannot …

This chapter focuses on the notion of syllable in sign languages. Although there is now a
consensus on the defining feature of a syllable in sign languages, ie that there must be a …