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Language Contact between Israeli Sign Language and Kufr Qassem Sign Language
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Stamp, Rose; Jaraisy, Marah – Sign Language Studies, 2021
We investigate the contact situation between Israeli Sign Language (ISL) and Kufr Qassem Sign Language (KQSL) in a bilingual deaf community in Israel. We examine one outcome of language contact, known as reiteration--when two semantically equivalent lexical items from two different languages are produced sequentially. Until now, reiteration has…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Deafness
Signs of Globalization: ASL Influence in the Lexicon of New Zealand Sign Language
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McKee, Rachel; Vale, Mireille; Alexander, Sara Pivac; McKee, David – Sign Language Studies, 2022
Lexical variation and change is prevalent in the short history of New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) and in the current context of globalized flows of communication we observe growing use of ASL-concordant variants that land in New Zealand via other signed languages, online deaf media, and international interaction. Results from a variant-pair…
Descriptors: Global Approach, American Sign Language, Pragmatics, Semantics