Sign Language and Non-Verbal Communication
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1. Signing in the Seraglio: Mutes, Dwarfs and Jestures at the Ottoman Court 1500 - 1700 - M. Miles'
thorough history of early modern Turkish views on disability and the popularity of sign language.
Reprinted from "Disability and Society"
2. A Nice Gesture - Stories of gestures and sign language about perception, semiotics, and technology.
3. Myths About Sign Language - Hugh Young from New Zealand dispels universal myths about sign
languages, as well as about Pidgin as Maori.
4. Name Signs and Identity in New Zealand Sign Language - Exclusive excerpt from Gallaudet University
Press, by David and Rachel Locker McKee.
5. Sign Language Studies - A journal that focuses on the study of sign language and the people who use
it. Quarterly archives of the journal are available online from Fall 2000.
6. Sign, Gesture and Deafness in South Asian and South West Asian History - Historical linguistics
research by M. Miles. Treats use of sign language from antquity to the present in India, Aghanistan,
Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Persia/Iran and Sri Lanka.
7. History of sign language in the United States (American School for the Deaf Website).
8. History of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (sign language in the UK).
9. American Sign Language (ASL) History Lesson
10. Pablo Bonet, J. de (1620) Reduction de las letras y Arte para enseñar á ablar los Mudos, Biblioteca
Digital Hispánica (BNE).
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Iconicity in Sign Language - ASL University
Quantity principle - Iconicity and the evolution of ... - Iconic calls and gestures
The road to language learning is iconic: evidence from British Sign ...
1 Iconicity as a General Property of Language: Evidence from ... - UCL
The Road to Language Learning Is Iconic - Association for ...
Iconicity in American sign language
Arbitrariness and Iconicity: Historical Change in American Sign - JStor
Effects of Iconicity on American Sign Language - California State ...
How the Hands Cue the Mind: The Effects of Iconicity and Enactment ...
Sign language iconicity and its influence on the ability to describe ...
The Role of Iconicity in Early Sign Language Acquisition -- Orlansky ...
Two faces of sign: iconic and abstract.
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Morphology
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THE PARADOX OF SIGN LANGUAGE MORPHOLOGY
A few basics of American Sign Language (ASL) Linguistics
Noun morphology in Italian Sign Language (LIS)
Morphological universals and the sign language type* - UC San Diego
A Morphological Analyzer for Verbal Aspect In American Sign ...
The typological classification of sign language morphology
Handling vs Instrument: a crosslinguistic study of sign language ...
Sign language
Chapter 2 Models of signed language phonology and morphology
ASL / Sign Language Morphology - Handspeak
Differences in the Use of American Sign Language Morphology by ...
12. THE PARADOX OF SIGN LANGUAGE MORPHOLOGY.
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"Credibility, Respect, and Power: Sending the Right Nonverbal Signals" by Debra Stein
Online Nonverbal Library with more than 500 free available articles on this topic.
The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues by David B. Givens
"Psychology Today Nonverbal Communication Blog posts" by Joe Navarro
"NVC Portal - A useful portal providing information on Nonverbal Communication"
Google Scholar
Sign language structure: An outline of the visual communication systems of the American deaf
Visual Recognition of American Sign Language Using Hidden Markov Models.
Children creating language: How Nicaraguan Sign Language acquired a spatial grammar
On the autonomy of language and gesture: Evidence from the acquisition of personal pronouns in
American Sign Language
Impact of early deafness and early exposure to sign language on the cerebral organization for motion
processing
Non-verbal communication
Non-verbal communication.
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7. Bencie Woll, et al. "Aphasia In A User Of British Sign Language: Dissociation Between Sign And
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9. Galvan, Dennis. "Differences In The Use Of American Sign Language Morphology By Deaf Children:
Implications For.." American Annals Of The Deaf 144.4 (1999): 320-324. Academic Search Premier.
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10. Wurtzburg, Susan, and Lyle Campbell. "North American Indian Sign Language: Evidence Of Its
Existence Before European Contact." International Journal Of American Linguistics 61.2 (1995): 153.
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Morgan, Ruth. "Giving Voice To Silenced Lives: A South African Sign Language Oral History Project
With The Deaf Community." S. A. Archives Journal 41.(1999): 41. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16
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Senghas, Richard J., and Leila Monaghan. "SIGNS OF THEIR TIMES: Deaf Communities And The
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Kageleiry, Jamie. "The Island That Spoke By Hand." Yankee 63.3 (1999): 48. Academic Search
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Banham, Debby. "Silence And Sign Language In Medieval Monasticism." Catholic Historical Review
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Wolkomir, Richard, and Lynn Johnson. "American Sign Language: `It's Not Mouth Stuff--It's Brain
Stuff.'." Smithsonian 23.4 (1992): 30. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Apr. 2013.
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Mirzoeff, Nicholas. "The Silent Mind: Learning From Deafness." History Today 42.7 (1992): 19.
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