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Sign languages and spoken languages have an equal capacity to
communicate our thoughts. Beyond this, however, while there are
many similarities, there are also fascinating differences, caused
primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different
modalities, but also by some important social differences. The
articulators are more visible and use larger muscles with
consequent greater effort. It is difficult to visually attend to
both a sign and an object at the same time. Iconicity is more
systematic and more available in signs. The body, especially the
face, plays a much larger role in sign. Sign languages are more
frequently born anew as small groups of deaf people come together
in villages or schools. Sign languages often borrow from the
written form of the surrounding spoken language, producing
fingerspelling alphabets, character signs, and related signs. This
book examines the effects of these and other differences using
observation, experimentation and theory. The languages examined
include Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American sign
languages, and language situations include home signers and small
village signers, children, gesturers, adult signers, and non-native
signers.
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