31.1966, Books: Sign Language Phonology: Brentari

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:35:51
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: Sign Language Phonology: Brentari

 


Title: Sign Language Phonology 
Series Title: Key Topics in Phonology  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/phonetics-and-phonology/sign-language-phonology?format=HB 


Author: Diane Brentari

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108761925 Pages: 296 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107113473 Pages: 296 Price: U.S. $ 125.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107113473 Pages: 296 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and
its contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics,
morphology, prosody, language acquisition and language creation. Working on
sign languages not only provides important new insights on familiar issues,
but also poses a whole new set of questions about phonology, because of the
use of the visual communication modality. This book lays out the properties
needed to recognize a phonological system regardless of its modality. Written
by a leading expert in sign language research, the book describes the current
state of the field and addresses a range of issues that students and
researchers will encounter in their work, as well as highlighting the
significant impact that the study of sign languages has had on the field of
phonology as a whole. It includes lists of further reading materials, and a
full glossary, as well as helpful illustrations that demonstrate the important
aspects of sign language structure, even to the most unfamiliar of readers. A
text that will be useful to both specialists and general linguists, this book
provides the first comprehension overview of the field.

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Language Family(ies): Sign Language


Written In: English  (eng)

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