13 search results for “sign language” in the Public website
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Symposium: Through the Hands of Signers: History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change
Conference
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the hands of signers: modelling spread and change in historical sign language linguistics
This project investigates how sign languages change and spread over time, and how this is influenced by their transmission history.
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hearing signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities
In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.
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Historical and Linguistic Development of the Signing Community in Mozambique: The Emergence of local sign through contact, influence and linguistic
This PhD project investigates the historical and sociolinguistic factors that have influenced the emergence of local sign languages in Mozambique. It examines how these factors have shaped the Deaf signing community and contributed to the development of a national sign language that incorporates borrowings…
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From Gesture to Language
Like any language, the natural sign languages (henceforth: SLs) of deaf communities differ from each other in their grammars and lexicons. A growing number of studies indicates that SLs make use of the gestures of hearing speakers to build linguistic structure. This implies that variation and similarities…
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Manolis FragkiadakisFaculty of Humanities
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.
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Victoria NystAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Implications of legal recognition of UgSL on Communication and Instruction for Deaf learners in Primary school in Uganda
This PhD project investigates the impacts of recognition of sign languages on communication and instruction for deaf learners in primary schools in Uganda.
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Negation in Dutch Sign Language
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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History and change in Sign Language Phonology
Lecture
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
- Leiden-Birmingham Lectures