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Hannah Lutzenberger; Lierin de Wael; Rehana Omardeen; Mark Dingemanse – Sign Language Studies, 2024
Minimal expressions are at the heart of interaction: Interjections like "Huh?" and "Mhm" keep conversations flowing by establishing and reinforcing intersubjectivity among interlocutors. Crosslinguistic research has identified that similar interactional pressures can yield structurally similar words (e.g., to initiate repair…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Sign Language, English, Expressive Language
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Fahimah Ali; Ben Braithwaite – Sign Language Studies, 2024
Deaf-sighted, deaf-blind, and hearing-sighted people have been interacting within a small community in the Bay Islands of Honduras for over a century (Ali 2023; Ali and Braithwaite 2020). In this article, we sketch the history of the community and the ways in which signers make use of their own and their interlocutor's bodies to co-construct…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Community, Deafness
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Marga Stander; Hazel Sivell – Sign Language Studies, 2025
This article aims to identify common errors made by hearing students learning South African Sign Language (SASL) and enhance the understanding of language acquisition in this context. The researchers formulated three hypotheses, attributing errors to vocabulary gaps, misunderstandings due to improper signing, and the dual impact of spoken and…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Hearing (Physiology)
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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
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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