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Article: Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages: a Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Word Formation.
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- Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Diane Brentari, editor: Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Word Formation. Mahwah, NJ, and London: Erlbaum, 2001. ISBN 0-8058-3208-4.
The uniqueness of the information that sign-language research (SLR) brings to the field of general linguistics is demonstrated here in two ways: first, because the two languages involved are either spoken or signed and therefore function in two modalities, the acoustic and the visual one; second, because of the possible simultaneity in performance; one can speak and sign at the same time. In her introduction Brentari sets the general aim of the five contributions as follows: "We can learn a ...