Sign Language and Linguistic Universals (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521482486)

Sign languages are of great interest to linguists because, while they are produced by the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of spoken languages. Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin compare spoken languages with those that are signed, in order to seek universal properties of human languages. No prior background in sign language linguistics is assumed, and numerous pictures are provided to make descriptions accessible to readers.

Author: Wendy Sandler, Diane Lillo-Martin
ISBN-10: 0521482488
ISBN-13: 9780521482486
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2006
Pages: 570
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.75lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.90w x 1.50d