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Sign Language versus Gesture; Sign Language versus Speech

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2019

Diane Brentari
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University of Chicago
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By working through phonological questions using sign language data we arrive at a new understanding of the very nature of phonology, of the very nature of language. This chapter gives a brief historical look into the field from its inception, lays out the reasons why thinking about sign language phonology opens up new ways to understand the nature of language, broadly construed, and provides enough background on the units of word-level phonology in sign languages to see practical and theoretical connections to parallel issues in spoken language phonology.

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Print publication year: 2019

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1.7 Further Reading

Battison, R. (1978). Lexical Borrowing in American Sign Language. Silver Spring, MD: Linstok Press. Reprinted 2003, Burtonsville, MD: Sign Media, Inc.Google Scholar
Brentari, D. (1998). A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology. MIT Press.Google Scholar
Fenlon, J., Cormier, K., & Brentari, D.. The phonology of sign languages. (2017). In Hannahs, S.J. and Bosch, A. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory (pp. 453475). New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Sandler, W. & Lillo-Martin, D. (2006). Sign Language and Linguistic Universals. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Stokoe, W. (1960). Sign Language Structure: An Outline of the Visual Communication Systems of the American Deaf. Buffalo, NY: University of Buffalo. (Occasional Papers 8).Google Scholar
van der Hulst, H. & van der Kooij, E. (in press). Phonological structure of signs: Theoretical perspectives. In Quer, J., Pfau, R. & Herrmann, A (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research. London: Routledge.Google Scholar

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  • Introduction
  • Diane Brentari, University of Chicago
  • Book: Sign Language Phonology
  • Online publication: 04 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316286401.001
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  • Introduction
  • Diane Brentari, University of Chicago
  • Book: Sign Language Phonology
  • Online publication: 04 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316286401.001
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  • Introduction
  • Diane Brentari, University of Chicago
  • Book: Sign Language Phonology
  • Online publication: 04 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316286401.001
Available formats
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