Sign Languages

Transcription system for signed languages. Catalogs, library, online lessons, forum, downloadable SignWriter shareware, Sutton fonts, sign dictionaries, literature.

Article that discusses whether using sign language in Down Syndrome interferes with speech later?

Links to bibliographic entries for thirteen Asian Sign Languages: Australasian, Chinese (CSL), Hong Kong (HKSL), Indian (INS), Indonesian, Japanese (JSL), Korean (KVK), Malaysian (BMT), Nepalese (NSP), Philippine (PSP), Sri Lankan (SQS), Taiwanese (TSS) and Thai (TSQ). Full-text articles not included.

Two-volume set available for purchase.

From Jeremy Wilkinson and Berna Marthinussen. In English.

Small .gif images of Greek fingerspelling. Displays written letters in Roman and Greek forms. From deafblind.com.

Study of a minority sign language in Eastern Canada. From the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, May 1999.

Exclusive excerpt from Gallaudet University Press, by David and Rachel Locker McKee.

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.

Brief explanation with citations from Dr. Steven Schaufele. Reprinted from the LINGUIST list.

Overview on different sign language assessments and provides information on test development and testing.

Freeware fingerspelling software which supports ASL, BSL, and Indonesian.

Project to devise a common fingerspelling system for the Indian subcontinent, bridging the Hindi, Bengali, Gujurati, Punjabi and other sign languages of India.

Offers a videotape and workbook to assist with learning Brazilian Sign Language at a beginning level.

Interactive software for learning South African Sign Language.

B.A. thesis by Merilin Miljan, Estonian Institute for the Humanities.

Resources about using computers to capture and decipher sign languages.

Index of world signed languages from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Joseph E. Grimes and Barbara F. Grimes, Editors, 14th Edition 2002.

Hugh Young from New Zealand dispels universal myths about sign languages, as well as about Pidgin as Maori.

Aims to improve the position of Flemish Sign Language and its signers. Information on the web site is given in Dutch, Flemish Sign Language, and English.

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.

Stories of gestures and sign language about perception, semiotics, and technology.

executive functions • natural language. learning • memory ... 8 Natural Language Processing. 9 Modalities. 9.1 Sign and Signed languages. 9.2 Written languages ...[2008/11/26]

Article on ASL linguistics and learning to sign. ... of Deaf Euro-kids grows up, they will develop a new, natural Euro-sign language. ...[2008/04/06]

Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept.[2008/11/28]

Natural sign languages are those that have arisen spontaneously through time by ... The natural sign languages of deaf communities are typically named by the region ...[2008/08/29]

The natural sign lan- guages of Deaf communities have the properties ... Sandler W and Lillo-Martin D (2001) Natural Sign. Languages. ...[2004/03/21]

American Sign Language natural language generation and machine translation. Full text ... Critique of ASL Natural Language Generation and Machine Translation ...[2008/11/17]

These languages were always modeled after the natural sign languages already in ... ASL is a natural language as proved to the satisfaction of the linguistic ...[2008/11/16]

American Sign Language n. ( Abbr. ASL ) The primary sign language used by deaf and hearing-impaired people in the ... the natural sign languages already in ...[2008/11/22]

... profit organization promoting public access to American Sign Language. ... PSE is not a structured system, but a natural mix of two languages, ASL and English. ...[2006/08/04]

In our assessment of American Sign Language, we found that many people think of ... in deaf education shifted from recognizing sign language as a natural means of ...[2008/05/13]