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Brittany Arnold; Lindsay Ferrara – Sign Language Studies, 2024
Researchers examining the structure of questions in signed languages, often using elicited data from informants, have proposed that there are specific manual and nonmanual actions produced by signers to indicate different question types (e.g., Zeshan 2004), for example, raised eyebrows for polar questions. In the current study, we add to this body…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Norwegian, Deafness
Siyavoshi, Sara – Sign Language Studies, 2017
Because sign languages have two main articulators, signers simultaneously experience both possibilities and constraints in the articulation and perception of linguistic messages. Sign languages commonly convey different linguistic units with each hand, and additional information is conveyed in nonmanual signals. Meaningful perseverations (or sign…
Descriptors: Role, Handedness, Sign Language, Foreign Countries
Ghari, Zohreh – Sign Language Studies, 2017
In 1924 Jabbar Baghcheban created a manual system that employed the phonetic characteristics of spoken Persian and Perso-Arabic orthography for use in the education of deaf students (Ibrahimi 2007). This article is a first exploration of variation and change in this system as it has evolved into the Iranian manual alphabet. Data on the…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Phonetics, Semitic Languages, Indo European Languages
Hochgesang, Julie A. – Sign Language Studies, 2014
Linguists have long recognized the descriptive limitations of Stokoe notation, currently the most commonly used system for phonetic or phonological transcription, but continue using it because of its widespread influence (e.g., Siedlecki and Bonvillian, 2000). With the emergence of newer notation systems, the field will benefit from a discussion…
Descriptors: Phonetic Transcription, Phonology, Best Practices, Manual Communication
Healy, Christina – Sign Language Studies, 2011
Mongolian Sign Language (MSL) is a visual-gestural language that developed from multiple languages interacting as a result of both geographic proximity and political relations and of the natural development of a communication system by deaf community members. Similar to the phonological systems of other signed languages, MSL combines handshapes,…
Descriptors: Phonology, Morphemes, Sign Language, Deafness

Volterra, Virginia – Sign Language Studies, 1981
Presents study analyzing gestural communication of hearing children between one and two years of age, comparing it with the communication of a deaf child of deaf parents exposed to sign language since birth. Results suggest that the capacity to combine symbols, referential words, or signs simultaneously depends on exposure to a linguistic input. (…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Infants, Manual Communication
Mitchell, Ross E.; Young, Travas A.; Bachleda, Bellamie; Karchmer, Michael A. – Sign Language Studies, 2006
This article traces the sources of the estimates of the number of American Sign Language users in the United States. A variety of claims can be found in the literature and on the Internet, some of which have been shown to be unfounded but continue to be cited. In our search for the sources of the various (mis)understandings, we have found that all…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Internet, Databases, Misconceptions

Todd, Peyton – Sign Language Studies, 1980
Reviews the book that reports the results of research conducted by Edward Klima, Ursula Bellugi, and others. The book aims to show American Sign Language as a true language and to detail the representational devices that the language employs. A chapter by chapter summary of the reported research is given. (PJM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Language Research, Manual Communication

Liddell, Scott K. – Sign Language Studies, 1986
Head Thrust is a significant nonmanual signal in American Sign Language (ASL). It occurs on the final sign in a conditional clause, in combination with a brow raise and a rotated head position. The signal is unlike other grammatical signals involving a brow raise. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Deafness, Kinesthetic Perception

Fischer, Susan; Gough, Bonnie – Sign Language Studies, 1978
The role of verbs in American Sign Language (ASL) is investigated. Verb mutations in ASL are very different from the kinds of grammatical deformations that occur in English, and are different from those that occur in spoken languages as a whole. (HP)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Grammar, Manual Communication

Stall, C. Harmon; Marshall, Philip H. – Sign Language Studies, 1981
Presents study designed to determine whether interruption in the use of the manual encoding modality would retard learning in prelingually deaf subjects. One group of students used finger spelling and finger numeration in learning eight pairs of number-word combinations while the other group used no manual encoding. Results show groups using…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Comparative Analysis, Deafness

Zeshan, Ulrike – Sign Language Studies, 1996
Presents data on Pakistan Sign Language collected during videotaped interviews with informants. Questions whether nonmanual components of a sign should be included among the language parameters and considered equivalent to the phonemes of spoken languages. (seven references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Interviews

Green, Kerry – Sign Language Studies, 1984
Two experiments questioned whether deaf signers agree on the location of sign boundaries in American Sign Language (ASL), as well as where in time the boundaries are located. Results indicated that the deaf subjects were using linguistic knowledge of ASL when making judgments of the location of sign boundaries. (SL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Language Research, Manual Communication

Mandel, Mark A. – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Presents three sets of data (signs from the "Dictionary of ASL," 1976; loan signs; and case histories of specific signs) that demonstrate the involvement of the "knuckle-wrist connection" with American Sign Language phonology. (AM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Anatomy, Body Language, Deafness

Stokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1978
In the debate over continuities versus discontinuities in the emergence of language, sign language is not taken to be the antithesis, but is presented as the antecedent of spoken languages. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Deafness, Grammar, Language, Language Acquisition