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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"rural sign languages"”.
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Sign Languages of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and their Challenges for Sign Language Typology
The diverse sign languages (SLs) between established deaf community SLs and homesign have been called the “grey area” of SL linguistics, by virtue of their resistance to classification and the fact that they are understudied (Nyst, 2010, p. 416). This thesis investigates the languages of 12 deaf …
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Sign Languages of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and their Challenges for Sign Language Typology
The diverse sign languages (SLs) between established deaf community SLs and homesign have been called the “grey area” of SL linguistics, by virtue of their resistance to classification and the fact that they are understudied (Nyst, 2010, p. 416). This thesis investigates the languages of 12 deaf …