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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Chinese Sign Language"”.
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A Comparison of Chinese and Taiwan Sign Languages: Towards a New Model for Sign Language Comparison
It is commonly believed that sign language is a universal language. However,linguists researching sign languages have demonstrated that deaf people from differentcommunities have their own languages. This research is aimed at creating a synchroniclexical comparison of Taiwan Sign Language (TSL) and …
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The numeral system of Japanese Sign Language from a cross-linguistic perspective
This thesis investigates how the Japanese Sign Language (JSL) numeral system can be characterised with respect to aspects of the linguistic structure of JSL numerals at the phonological and morphological levels; to typological comparisons with other sign languages; and, finally, to sociolinguistic …
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A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic analysis of deaf reading practices in China: case studies using teacher interviews and classroom observations
… text that is not entirely phonological. Chinese is known for its non-alphabetic script and its greater reliance upon morphological processing (Anderson & Kuo, 2006), visual skills (Ho & Bryant, 1997; Huang & Hanley, 1995; McBride-Chang & Zhong, 2003), and radical awareness- all argued to …