TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilkinson,Erin
AU  - Morford,Jill Patterson
TI  - Understanding signed languages
T2  - Understanding language series
SN  - 9781032164083
AV  - P117 .W55 2024
U1  - 419 23/eng/20231115
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Sign language
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction to signed languages -- Signed language communities -- Phonetics and phonology in signed languages -- Packaging meaning in signs and constructions in signed languages -- Signed language discourse -- Signs of changes -- Language acquisition in the visual modality -- Deaf communities are multilingual communities
N2  - "Understanding Signed Languages provides a broad and accessible introduction to the science of language with evidence drawn from signed languages around the world. Readers will learn about language through a unique set of signed language studies that will surprise them with the diversity of ways human languages achieve the same functional goals of communication"--
ER  -