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Peer reviewedSingleton, Jenny L.; And Others – Language, 1993
Conventional sign language used by a community of signers over generations was compared with gestures invented by a deaf child over a period of years and with gestures invented by nonsigning hearing individuals on the spot. Findings suggest that an individual can introduce standards of well-formedness, but construction of standards requires…
Descriptors: Body Language, Comparative Analysis, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Peer reviewedTweney, Ryan D.; Hoemann, Harry W. – Sign Language Studies, 1973
Research supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deaf Interpreting
Peer reviewedMacken, Elizabeth; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1995
This study seeks to understand American Sign Language (ASL) as heterogeneous communication and to use it as a model for developing in other modalities alternative heterogeneous communication systems with the same advantages. (26 references) (CK)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Charts, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Peer reviewedRudser, Steven Fritsch – Sign Language Studies, 1986
The performance of two sign language interpreters in interpreting and transliterating two English texts in 1973 and again in 1985 was analyzed. Both interpreters significantly increased their use of four linguistic features of American Sign Language: classifiers; rhetorical questions; noun-adjective word order; and nonmanual negation. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Classification, Deaf Interpreting
Deuchar, Margaret – 1978
This paper explores the link between sign language research and sociolinguistic theory. It demonstrates how sign language research benefits from a sociolinguistic approach and provides validation for sociolinguistic theory. Previous research on the sign language of the deaf is reviewed, and a distinction is made between "structure-oriented" and…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deaf Interpreting
