Since the 1990s, the field of sign language typology has shown that sign languages exhibit
typological variation at all relevant levels of linguistic description. These initial typological …

This is a vocabulary research manual. It aims to give you the background knowledge
necessary to design rigorous and effective research studies into the behavior of L1 and L2 …

Sign language in action is a term that we have coined to encompass how sign languages
are used in everyday life. In Chapter 2, we framed the notion of sign language in action …

. Introduction. How do children learn a sign language?. e path of sign language
development.. e pre-linguistic stage.. e one-and two-word stages.. e differentiation stage …

A survey of reports of sign order from 42 sign languages leads to a handful of
generalizations. Two accounts emerge, one amodal and the other modal. We argue that …

Information Structure in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands Page 1
Sign Language & Linguistics 18:1 (2015), 142–150. doi 10.1075/sll.18.1.06kim issn 1387–9316 …

Editorial board: Sam Lutalo-Kiingi, Ronice Müller de Quadros, Nick Palfreyman, Roland
Pfau, Adam Schembri, Gladys Tang, Erin Wilkinson, Jun Hui Yang The series is dedicated to …

The expression of standard negation by means of manual and/or non-manual markers has
been described for a considerable number of sign languages. Typological comparisons …

Bringing together the research fields of sign language linguistics and information structure,
this bookfocuses onthe realization of modal particles and focus particles in three European …

Since signs and words are perceived and produced in distinct sensory-motor systems, they
do not share a phonological basis. Nevertheless, many deaf bilinguals master a spoken …