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Peer reviewedLucas, Ceil; Bayley, Robert; Rose, Mary; Wulf, Alyssa – Sign Language Studies, 2002
Reviews previous work on phonological variation in American Sign Language (ASL) and examines issues that distinguish spoken languages. Presents an account of the data collection, reduction, and analysis, with an emphasis on issues particular to the analysis. Discusses implications of the results, including possible change in ASL. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Language Research, Language Variation
Peer reviewedWulf, Alyssa; Dudis, Paul; Bayley, Robert; Lucas, Ceil – Sign Language Studies, 2002
Examines one kind of syntactic variation--variable subject pronoun presence with American Sign Language plain verbs. Focuses on narratives that occurred during conversations recorded as part of a larger study. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Language Research, Language Variation
Direct linkBayley, Robert; Langman, Juliet – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
This article examines the relationship between group and individual patterns of variation in one area of the grammar: verbal morphology. The results of studies of the acquisition of English and Hungarian verbal morphology by Chinese learners show that individual patterns of variation closely match group patterns on several dimensions. Multivariate…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Multivariate Analysis, Verbs
