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Justin M. Power; Richard P. Meier – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
The deaf population of Martha's Vineyard has fascinated scholars for more than a century since Alexander Graham Bell's research on the frequent occurrence of deafness there and since Groce's book on the island's signing community (Groce, N. E. (1985). "Everyone here spoke sign language: Hereditary deafness on Martha's Vineyard."…
Descriptors: Deafness, Sign Language, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Research
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Samantha Rarrick – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2025
The field of language documentation continues to grow, but an historic split between sign language documentation and spoken language documentation persists. In order to fully understand the linguistic context within a community, it can be necessary to overcome this split by designing language documentation projects to address threatened and…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Speech Communication, Best Practices, Language Research