Claims have been made about the relationship between the degree of lexical variation and
the social structure of a sign language community (eg, population size), but to date there …

The term repair refers to strategies deployed by language users to resolve breakdowns in
communication. In this study, I ask what strategies for conversational repair are deployed …

In this article, I argue that centering multimodal practices is important in the study of human
communication and sociality, and becomes particularly relevant in the presence of …

Cochlear implants are considered the gold standard in intervening on deafness and hearing
loss. However,“success” is predicated upon routine and consistent use, which in turn is …

In this paper, I explore metalinguistic discourse in Zinacantec Family Homesign ('Z sign'), an
emergent sign language developed by three deaf siblings and their hearing family …

Children's acquisition of directional verbs in sign languages has received a lot of attention,
but less is known about the sociocultural process of using these verbs, especially in the …

This thesis is concerned with language learning experiences of deaf migrants in Swedish
adult education with a particular focus on how linguistic, social, and cultural factors influence …

Abstract Language contact research is often concerned with understanding which bounded
language (s) are the source of particular linguistic forms, and identifying and explaining (in) …

Morphological complexity has been used as a measure to classify languages into types that
are more and less complex and to link language age and social structure. For example …

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