Mouth Actions in Sign Languages: An Empirical Study of Irish Sign Language 9781614514978, 9781614517054

Mouth actions in sign languages have been controversially discussed but the sociolinguistic factors determining their fo

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Mouth Actions in Sign Languages: An Empirical Study of Irish Sign Language
9781614514978, 9781614517054

Mouth actions in sign languages have been controversially discussed but the sociolinguistic factors determining their fo

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This Element describes creative sign language in deaf literature. To showcase the exciting developments in Latin America

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This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information structure in sign languages. Furth

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Person and number are two basic grammatical categories. However, they have not yet been exhaustively documented in many

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Sign language linguists show here that all questions relevant to the linguistic investigation of spoken languages can be

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Taboo topics in deaf communities include the usual ones found in spoken languages, as well as ones particular to deaf ex

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This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices.

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Since natural languages exist in two different modalities – the visual-gestural modality of sign languages and the audit

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