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Schuster, Michal; Hirsch, Galia – Sign Language Studies, 2018
This article discusses the occurrence of voids in the intersection between Hebrew and Israeli Sign Language (ISL). Using Weizman's classification of voids (2010, 2016) in our analysis, we have discovered that languages that employ visual and auditory modalities make use of an additional category of voids: modality-induced voids. Our corpus…
Descriptors: Deafness, Sign Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Semitic Languages
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McKee, David; Kennedy, Graeme – Sign Language Studies, 2006
Until now, teachers and learners of NZSL have not had access to information on the most frequently used signs in the Deaf community. This article describes the first study of the distribution of signs in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL). We hope that it will help teachers of NZSL make decisions about which signs to teach first and suggest…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Access to Information, Foreign Countries