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Primary Movement in Sign Languages: A Study of Six Languages

By Donna Jo Napoli, Mark Mai, Nicholas Gaw
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By Donna Jo Napoli, Mark Mai, Nicholas Gaw
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Is it possible to identify sign languages by their prosody, that is, the rhythm and stress of sign production, and then determine if they are related to each other or other sign languages? If so, reasoned authors Donna Jo Napoli, Mark Mai, and Nicholas Gaw, perhaps they could offer such identification as a new way to typologize, or categorize sign languages by their structural features. Their new collaboration Primary Movement in Sign Languages: A Study of Six Languages traces the process a...

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