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 …

Visually perceivable and movable parts of the body–the hands, facial features, head, and
upper body–are the articulators of sign language. It is through these articulators that words …

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 …

It is common practice to represent spoken languages at their phonetic level. However, for
sign languages, this implies breaking motion into its constituent motion primitives. Avatar …

The division of linguistic structure into a meaningless (phonological) level and a meaningful
level of morphemes and words is considered a basic design feature of human language …

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

Among the most prevailing assumptions in science and society about the human reading
process is that sound and sound‐based phonology are critical to young readers. The child's …

Sign languages display remarkable crosslinguistic consistencies in the use of handshapes.
In particular, handshapes used in classifier predicates display a consistent pattern in finger …

One type of internal diachronic change that has been extensively studied for spoken
languages is grammaticalization whereby lexical elements develop into free or bound …

The sources of knowledge that individuals use to make similarity judgments about words are
thought to tap underlying phonological representations. This study addresses the issue of …