This short video shows us three different American Sign Language poems – two of which are less than a minute long. They give us an idea of poetry that is entirely out of most mainstream ...

Sign languages provide insight into universal linguistic short-cuts Date: June 27, 2016 Source: Linguistic Society of America Summary: Humans have a natural drive to reduce physical effort in ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language. By David Leonhardt On a train ride from New York to Connecticut last fall, my colleague ...

Limited contact between the first British Sign Language communities created dialects that are still in use ... For example, the sign meaning “green” in Glasgow is different from the sign used ...

The ways that effort-reduction affect human language have been the subject of extensive research in the field of linguistics, ... Sign languages provide insight into universal linguistic short-cuts.