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Ergin, Rabia; Meir, Irit; Ilkbasaran, Deniz; Padden, Carol; Jackendoff, Ray – Sign Language Studies, 2018
One of the fundamental issues for a language is its capacity to express argument structure unambiguously. This study presents evidence for the emergence and the incremental development of these basic mechanisms in a newly developing language, Central Taurus Sign Language. Our analyses identify universal patterns in both the emergence and…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Research, Language Patterns, Language Universals
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Richardson, Kristina – Sign Language Studies, 2017
The earliest descriptions of Latin finger alphabets were recorded in southern Europe between 1579 and 1589. New literary and visual evidence for sixteenth-century Ottoman Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sign systems are presented and analyzed in this article.
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Turkish, Alphabets, Sign Language