Chapter 1. Sign languages as natural languages

Baker, Anne

doi:10.1075/z.199.01bak

In:The Linguistics of Sign Languages: An introduction
Edited by Anne E. Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau and Trude Schermer
[Not in series 199] 2016
► pp. 1–24

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Chapter 1
Sign languages as natural languages

Anne Baker

Published online: 23 June 2016

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.199.01bak

Article outline

1.1Introduction
1.2Language in space
1.3Deaf communities
1.4The relationship between signed and spoken languages
1.5Sign languages and linguistic universals
1.6Differences between sign languages
1.7Transcribing sign languages
1.8The history of sign linguistics
1.9The content of this book
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2017. Creating a Deaf place: the development of the Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Poor Children in the early nineteenth century. Journal of Cultural Geography 34:2 ► pp. 149 ff.

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Chapter 1Sign languages as natural languages

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Chapter 1
Sign languages as natural languages