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Hawes, M. Dixie; Danhauer, Jeffrey L. – Sign Language Studies, 1980
An investigation of the confusion resulting from reliance on visual perceptual teachers in the identification of dactylemes (handshapes) in the American Manual Alphabet (MA) is reported. A hierarchy of errors varying with subjects' degree of expertness in the MA is established. This can help manual communication teachers develop techniques for…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Deafness

Erting, Carol – Sign Language Studies, 1978
Deaf ethnicity, as the social phenomenon of deafness, is presented as the proper context in which to consider language learning, language teaching, and language planning in the education of the deaf. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Deafness

Siple, Patricia – Sign Language Studies, 1978
The article elaborates on the assumption that since sign languages are received and initially processed by the visual system, then the rules for the formation of signs of a sign language would be constrained by the limits of the visual system. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness

Fouts, Roger S.; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1984
Systematic sampling was done of signing between five home-reared chimpanzees who had had 4-7 years of complete immersion in integrating their signing interaction into their nonverbal communication. Eight-eight percent of all signs reported fell into the social categories of reassurance, social interaction, and play. (SL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Animal Behavior, Communication Skills, Language Acquisition

Woodward, James C. – Sign Language Studies, 1978
Native signs used as basic kin terms in 20 sign languages from several sign language families are examined. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Language Usage

Stokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1987
Attempts to prove that users of American Sign Language (ASL) do perform within a closed system of manual and nonmanual sign production features (phonemes and distinctive features). Deaf signers are quite capable of creating nonsense words as well as communicating with signers of other languages through pantomime and other paralinguistic features.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills

Covington, Virginia C. – Sign Language Studies, 1980
Studies the attitudes toward deaf society of two new deaf Gallaudet students who had been raised in an "oralist" tradition with biases against deaf culture. Their attitudes are compared with those of a deaf graduate oralist who had become acculturated into the deaf community. (PJM)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Biculturalism, Communication Skills, Culture Conflict

Bonvillian, John D.; Friedman, Robert J. – Sign Language Studies, 1978
The article gives an example of how, even though an individual's capacity to use or to learn a spoken language may be significantly impaired by brain damage, the ability to acquire a non-oral language system may remain intact. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes