While there are well - established methods to measure rhythms in speech, there are no automatic, objective equivalents for the temporal
structure of sign language.
«Part of our mandate, through the support of the NSF, is to reveal the complex
structure of sign language, and in so doing, disabuse the public of this notion.»
Currently there is a debate as to what role sign language has played in language evolution, and whether
the structure of sign language share similarities with spoken language.
Not exact matches
«Individuals who were born deaf and who are isolated from both speech and
sign language in early childhood grow up blind to the
structure of languages.»
There is Israeli
Sign Language (ISL), the
language of the deaf in that country, whose
structure the two Israeli scholars have devoted years to analyzing.
He adds that since these learners communicate through
Sign Language, they struggle partly because
of the difference between the
structure and grammar
of Afrikaans / English and
Sign Language, the absence
of a mathematics vocabulary in
Sign Language, and their limited
language skills.
There are different forms
of signed language, two
of which are ASL and
signed English, which follows the English
language structure and word order using hands.
There is Israeli
Sign Language, the
language of the deaf in that country, whose
structure the two Israeli scholars have devoted years to analyzing.
NEH funds are supporting 253 humanities projects across the United States, among them, «a video - based web platform allowing scholars to publish papers in
sign language, and a new tool that uses digital analysis
of architectural floor plans to show how Frank Lloyd Wright's
structures changed over time,... and a local community digitization projects will preserve historic materials held by the congregations
of African - American churches in Georgia»
Karlis Rekevics explores the psychological impact
of the urban landscape through the
language of «marginal»
structures such as roadwork barriers,
signs and billboards, light posts, and traffic lights.