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Articles on Sign language
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A recent Australian high court case has highlighted a problem that also exists in UK and Ireland.
Humans have invented many technologies to survive better – spears, pots, calculators, even language. With language, however, the raw material used to fashion the technology is the human body itself.
Think it’s stressful visiting a police station? Try doing it when you can’t hear.
One South African student’s experience with live captioning technology may be the start of an exciting change for deaf university students who do not use sign language.
What can a bunch of people grunting in a lab teach us about our capacity to create language systems? A lot about the gesture- or vocalization-based origins of language.
The world’s leading humanoid robot, ASIMO, has recently learnt sign language. The news of this breakthrough came just as I completed Level 1 of British Sign Language (I dare say it took me longer to master…
What is sign language? Before we answer that question, it might be useful to first consider what a “language” is. Spoken languages are naturally developed complex systems that use a set of conventionalised…
Research has shown that people without any familiarity with American Sign Language (ASL) can quickly recognise its key structures…
Research needs to be presented carefully to not mislead the community. It’s worrying when information is taken out of context by the media for a news item that may only run for one day. But this is exactly…
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Reader in Linguistics, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor in English Linguistics, University of Graz
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Professor and Chair of Intercultural Communication, Heriot-Watt University
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PhD student, University of Oxford
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Reader in Sign Linguistics, UCL Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, UCL
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Senior lecturer, Linguistics, University of the Witwatersrand
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PhD Student, Head of Disability Unit, Stellenbosch University
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The Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago
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Academic Tutor in Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology
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Darlithydd mewn Polisi Cymdeithasol (Cyfrwng Cymraeg)/ Lecturer in Social Policy (Welsh medium), Bangor University
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Linguist focusing on sign language research, Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt
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Lecturer South African Sign Language, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Waikato
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Professor of Linguistics, The University of Queensland
