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The Linguistics of Sign Languages - An Introduction

Paperback • 2016 • English

The Linguistics of Sign Languages - An Introduction

By Anna Baker, Roland Pfau, Trude Schermer, Beppie van der Bogaerde

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How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the brain? These questions and many more are addressed in this introductory book on sign linguistics using examples from more than thirty different sign languages. Comparisons are also made with spoken la...Show more

Linguistics
Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication

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9789027212313

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

The Linguistics of Sign Languages - An Introduction

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Paperback

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