Lucia Venturi is a research assistant at the Centre for Deaf Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
Lucia holds a Bachelor in Deaf Studies (hons) from Trinity College. Since graduating in …

The mental lexicon offers a window into the configuration of conceptual domains such as
space and time, which has been labeled as concrete the former and abstract the latter in the …

Abstract Irish Sign Language uses a one-handed alphabet in which each fingerspelled letter
has a unique combination of handshape, orientation, and, in a few cases, path movement …

Communication through sign language is essential for teachers of deaf students. This study
sought to assess and evaluate the sign language proficiency of preservice teachers of deaf …

The chapters in this volume have offered various perspectives into fluency in second
language (L2) learning and use, encompassing both what has traditionally been referred to …

This study reports on the use of an open-source software for sign language learning and
(self-) assessment. A Yes/No vocabulary size test for Swiss German Sign Language …

Hearing parents who endeavour to learn American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate
with their deaf children are a unique but understudied population of adult language learners …

This chapter explores the use of sign language corpora in L1 and L2/Ln sign language
classes. We discuss how corpora have been developed and used by linguists working on …

8 independent users, exercising autonomy in parent-child communication. This chapter
summarizes the historical background of Dutch parents' experiences with SLN courses and …

We discuss three case studies on various grammatical phenomena in Russian Sign
Language (RSL) and Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) in order to compare corpus …