Sign Language Phonology
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Part of Key Topics in Phonology
- Author: Diane Brentari, University of Chicago
- Date Published: October 2019
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- isbn: 9781108761925
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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.
Read more- Includes helpful figures and illustrations to demonstrate the important aspects of sign language structure for readers unfamiliar with the languages
- Selective topics ensure that the most important ideas and issues are discussed
- Provides suggestions of further research for the key topics in sign language phonology and shows how some of these topics are linked together
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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, Choice
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- Date Published: October 2019
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781108761925
- contains: 9 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: sign language vs gesture, sign language vs speech
2. Modality effects
3. Iconcity
4. Interfaces
5. The emergence of phonology
6. Sign language phonological processing
7. Sign language acquisition
8. Sign language phonological variation and change.
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