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Sign Language and Linguistic Universals

By Wendy Sandler , Diane Lillo-Martin

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0521482488, 9780521482486
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12267720 bytes)
Pages
570\570
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-08-30 14:00:28
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Description

Sign languages are of great interest to linguists because, while they are produced by the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of spoken languages. Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin compare spoken languages with those that are signed, in order to seek universal properties of human languages. No prior background in sign language linguistics is assumed, and numerous pictures are provided to make descriptions accessible to readers.

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