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Jepson, Jill – Sign Language Studies, 1991
Exploration of two sign languages independently employed by two isolated deaf signers in a single northern India village found that both languages included such negative structure elements as context-dependence, multichannels, and nondiscrete, ambiguous signs. One signer, strongly embedded in close relationships that formed a tiny speech…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Sign Language
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Washabaugh, William – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Analyzes the structure of Providence Island Sign Language as affected by the interaction of deaf signers with hearing signers in the Providence Island community. (AM)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Influence, Deafness, Discourse Analysis