This is first comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan, the sign language of
Australia. Assuming no prior background in language study, it explores each key aspect of …

American Sign Language (ASL) has become a very popular language in high schools,
colleges, and universities throughout the US, due, in part, to the growing number of schools …

In recent years, normed signed language assessments have become a useful tool for
researchers, practitioners, and advocates. Nevertheless, there are limitations in their …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

ASL-LEX is a lexical database that catalogues information about nearly 1,000 signs in
American Sign Language (ASL). It includes the following information: subjective frequency …

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 paper presents an overview of the British Sign Language Corpus Project—the first
endeavor to create a machine-readable digital corpus of British Sign Language (BSL) …

Research on signed languages offers the opportunity to address many important questions
about language that it may not be possible to address via studies of spoken languages …

Children typically acquire their native language naturally and spontaneously at a very young
age. The emergence of early grammar can be predicted from children's vocabulary size and …

This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe
tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. In …