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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 November 2019
      21 November 2019
      ISBN:
      9781316286401
      9781107113473
      9781107534094
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316286401
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 296 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 352 Pages
      • Series:
      Key Topics in Phonology
      Subjects:
      Phonetics and Phonology, Sign Language, Language and Linguistics
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    Series:
    Key Topics in Phonology
    Subjects:
    Phonetics and Phonology, Sign Language, Language and Linguistics
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    A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language acquisition and language creation. Working on sign languages not only provides important new insights on familiar issues, but also poses a whole new set of questions about phonology, because of the use of the visual communication modality. This book lays out the properties needed to recognize a phonological system regardless of its modality. Written by a leading expert in sign language research, the book describes the current state of the field and addresses a range of issues that students and researchers will encounter in their work, as well as highlighting the significant impact that the study of sign languages has had on the field of phonology as a whole. It includes lists of further reading materials, and a full glossary, as well as helpful illustrations that demonstrate the important aspects of sign language structure, even to the most unfamiliar of readers. A text that will be useful to both specialists and general linguists, this book provides the first comprehension overview of the field.

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    ‘Each chapter can stand alone as a coherent piece of scholarship; overall the book is important not just for sign language phonology but for the notion of phonology - and language - broadly.’

    E. L. Battistella Source: Choice

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