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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

Ingram, Robert M. – Sign Language Studies, 1978
The syntax of lexical units, or signs, of American Sign Language (ASL) is analyzed. Previous areas of study concerning pauses, functional sentence perspective, theme and rheme, and topic and comment are discussed. A model is offered to depict topic-comment relationships in ASL using space, vectors, and relationship rules. (SW)
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Manual Communication, Sign Language

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