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Salk Inst. for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA. – 1987
The manual teaches SignFont, a written form of sign language. Following a brief introduction, the first of three major sections describes the SignFont alphabet, structured according to the parts of every sign that is written (handshape, action area, location, movement). The second section discusses in greater detail how the SignFont characters are…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Expressive Language, Language
Download full textHewes, Gordon W. – 1975
Experiments in teaching language or language-like behavior to chimpanzees and other primates may bear on the problem of the origin of language. Evidence appears to support the theory that man's first language was gestural. Recent pongid language experiments suggest: (1) a capacity for language is not solely human and therefore does not represent…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Evolution, Language, Language Ability
Peer reviewedStokoe, 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
Peer reviewedCharrow, Veda R.; Wilbur, Ronnie B. – Theory Into Practice, 1975
This paper focuses upon the deaf as an American Sign Language-using community, out of the English-using mainstream. (RC)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, English, Finger Spelling
RUSALEM, HERBERT; AND OTHERS – 1966
POSITION PAPERS, DISCUSSION, AND RESEARCH PROPOSALS COVER COMMUNICATION, LEARNING, REHABILITATION, AND RESETTLEMENT. COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS OF THE DEAF BLIND ARE RELATED TO OTHER CONCEPTS OF COMMUNICATION. VERBAL SYMBOLS AND NONVERBAL SOUNDS IN COMMUNICATIVE PERCEPTION AND THE COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE ROLES OF THE LANGUAGE OF SOUND IN RELATION TO…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deaf Blind
Alterman, Arthur I. – Amer Ann Deaf, 1970
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Exceptional Child Education, Finger Spelling
Peer reviewedHockett, C. F. – American Speech, 1978
Surveys recent literature on the origins of language, and speculates on the history of human language, especially on the factors contributing to the change from a gestoral to a vocal system. (Available from the University of Alabama Press, Periodicals Department, Drawer 2877, University, Alabama 35486.) (AM)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Language
Peng, Fred C. C., Ed. – 1978
A collection of research materials on sign language and primatology is presented here. The essays attempt to show that: sign language is a legitimate language that can be learned not only by humans but by nonhuman primates as well, and nonhuman primates have the capability to acquire a human language using a different mode. The following…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Anthropology, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
FELLENDORF, GEORGE W.; AND OTHERS – 1966
APPROXIMATELY 3,200 REFERENCES ARE LISTED BY AUTHOR AND GROUPED ACCORDING TO SUBJECT. ALL REFERENCES ARE ARTICLES FROM "THE VOLTA REVIEW," 1899 TO 1965, OR "THE AMERICAN ANNALS OF THE DEAF," 1847 TO 1965. AN AUTHOR INDEX IS INCLUDED. THIS DOCUMENT WAS PUBLISHED BY THE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF, INC., THE…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Arithmetic, Art, Audiology
