TY  - CHAP
AU  - Crasborn, Onno
ED  - Pfau, Roland
ED  - Steinbach, Markus
ED  - Woll, Bencie
AB  - Sign and spoken languages differ primarily in their perceptual channel, vision vs. audition. This ‘modality difference’ has an effect on the structure of sign languages through-out the grammar, as is discussed in other chapters in this volume. Phonetic studies of sign languages typically focus on the articulation of signs. The arms, hands, and fingers form very complex articulators that allow for many different articulations for any given phonological specification for hand configuration, movement, and location. Indeed phonetic variation in sign language articulation is abundant, and in this respect, too, sign languages resemble spoken languages.
DO  - 10.1515/9783110261325.4
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006380
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135853891
KW  - Sign Language
KW  - Language Typology
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Psycholinguistics
KW  - Neurolinguistics
KW  - Sociolinguistics
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/cc16b946-e966-409e-8384-64a2cdaaeb46/5_[9783110261325 - Sign Language] 2. Phonetics.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23762
PB  - De Gruyter
PP  - Berlin/Boston
PY  - 2012
SN  - 9783110204216
TI  - Chapter 2 Phoneticsnull
ER  - 
