Mouth Actions in Sign Languages
：An Empirical Study of Irish Sign Language
( Sign Languages and Deaf Communities SLDC )
Publication subTitle ：An Empirical Study of Irish Sign Language
Publication series ：Sign Languages and Deaf Communities SLDC
Publisher： De Gruyter
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781614519041
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781614517054
Subject： H026.3 The shape language
Keyword： 语言学
Language： ENG
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Description
Mouth actions in sign languages have been controversially discussed but the sociolinguistic factors determining their form and functions remain uncertain. This first empirical analysis of mouth actions in Irish Sign Language focuses on correlations with gender, age, and word class. It contributes to the linguistic description of ISL, research into non-manuals in sign languages, and is relevant for the cross-modal study of word classes.