Diane Brentari (University of Chicago)

Sign Language Phonology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, and the related fields to which sign language studies has contributed, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language acquisition and language creation. It will be of interest to students and linguists working on spoken language, phonology and sign language linguistics.

Produktdetails

• Key Topics in Phonology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 138mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781107534094
• ISBN-10: 1107534097
• Artikelnr.: 63557745

Autorenporträt

Diane Brentari is the Mary K. Werkman Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. She is author and editor of six books including Shaping Phonology (co-edited with Jackson Lee, 2018), Sign Languages (Cambridge, 2010) and Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages: A Cross-linguistic Investigation of Word Formation (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: sign language vs gesture, sign language vs speech
2. Modality effects
3. Iconcity
4. Interfaces
5. The emergence of phonology
6. Sign language phonological processing
7. Sign language acquisition
8. Sign language phonological variation and change.