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Peer reviewedSutton-Spence, Rachel – International Journal of Bilingualism, 1999
Details the influence of English on British Sign Language (BSL) at the syntactic, morphological, lexical, idiomatic, and phonological levels. Shows how BSL uses loan translations, fingerspellings, and the use of mouth patterns derived from English language spoken words to include elements from English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Finger Spelling, Language Patterns
