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 …

Purpose To explore the effectiveness of a multisensory program integrating visual,
kinesthetic, and vibrotactile information to train phonological and syntactic reading abilities …

Silent gestures consist of complex multi‐articulatory movements but are now primarily
studied through categorical coding of the referential gesture content. The relation of …

Virtual avatars are increasingly used in sign language interpretation (McDonald and Wolfe
in Comput Speech Lang 54: 1–20, 2019), and education (De Martino et al. in Univ Access Inf …

We analyzed negative headshake found in the online corpus of Russian Sign Language.
We found that negative headshake can co-occur with negative manual signs, although most …

When the arms move in certain ways, they can cause the torso to twist or rock. Such
extraneous torso movement is undesirable, especially during sign language communication …

Sign phonetics is the study of how sign languages are produced and perceived, by native as
well as by non-native signers. Most research on sign phonetics has focused on Ameri can …

Torso articulation in sign languages is mentioned variably in the linguistic analysis of sign
languages but is often ignored. The prevailing idea seems to be that detailed study of …

Hands do not play an exclusive role in sign languages. Rather they co-and interoperate with
motions of parts of the face, head, shoulders and the (upper part of the) body–briefly defined …