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The Linguistics of Sign Languages: An introduction
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By Anne E. Baker (Editor), Beppie van den Bogaerde (Editor), Roland Pfau (Editor), Trude Schermer (Editor)
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How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the brain? These questions and many more are addressed in this introductory book on sign linguistics using examples from more than thirty different sign languages. Comparisons are also made with spok...