The purpose of the present study, performed with doctoral students Svetlana Dachkovsky of the University of Haifa and Christina Healy of Gallaudet University, was to determine whether the facial
intonation of sign language is the same for all sign languages or whether, like spoken languages, intonation takes on different characteristic patterns in each language.
Like the
intonation of individual spoken
languages,
sign languages also have their own unique «sound,» and, as with spoken
languages, the
intonation of one community's
language is different from that
of another community, according to a new study at the University
of Haifa.