Much like early speech, early signing is characterised by modifications. Sign language
phonology has been analysed on the feature level since the 1980s, yet acquisition studies …

Purpose Sign language users recruit physical properties of visual motion to convey linguistic
information. Research on American Sign Language (ASL) indicates that signers …

This chapter focuses on the notion of syllable in sign languages. Although there is now a
consensus on the defining feature of a syllable in sign languages, ie that there must be a …

The socio-historical reality of the segregation era defined the geographical and racial
isolation of residential state schools for the deaf that led to the development of Black …

Abstract American Sign Language (ASL) signs that are located on the forehead in their
canonical form are often articulated lower during natural signing. Previous studies have …

Recent work on location variation led us to investigate whether phonetic effects influence the
lowering of certain forehead located signs in American Sign Language. We found that …

The present paper addresses prosody at a sentence level analysis within short narratives,
developing a novel method based on a combination of data. Our first objective, then, is to …

This chapter reviews the research showing that sign languages have developed in
accordance with the perceptual and production possibilities and constraints related to the …

Motor simulation has emerged as a mechanism for both predictive action perception and
language comprehension. By deriving a motor command for an observed stimulus, and …

Purpose Effects of clicks and tonebursts on early and late auditory middle latency response
(AMLR) components were evaluated in young and older cigarette smokers and nonsmokers …