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Peer reviewedWoodward, James; DeSantis, Susan – Sign Language Studies, 1977
The historically attested change of two-handed signs on the face to one-handed variants, which occurs in two historically related sign languages, French Sign Language and American Sign Language, is used to test variation theory. The results of the study support viewing languages in a dynamic framework. (AMH)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness, Language Acquisition
Woodward, James; De Santis, Susan – 1975
Recent research in sociolinguistics has demonstrated the need for looking at language in a dynamic framework, that is, for not imposing the traditional synchronic-diachronic dichotomy on linguistic studies. Support for the dynamic framework has been given from various oral languages. This paper attempts to test variation theory with historically…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Diachronic Linguistics, Finger Spelling
Download full textWoodward, James C., Jr. – Sign Language Studies 10, 1976
American Sign Language (ASL) is historically related to French Sign Language (FSL) of the early 19th century. A study underway at Gallaudet College is researching the historical development of both languages treating syntax, lexicon and formation. This paper deals with data in the form of still photos collected in France and published in a…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Deafness, Descriptive Linguistics
