Seeing sentence boundaries : the production and perception of visual markers signalling boundaries in signed languages

Current definitions of prosody present a problem for signed languages since they are based on languages that exist in the oral-aural modality. Despite this, researchers have illustrated that although signed languages are produced in a different modality, a prosodic system exists whereby a signed str...

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Main Author: Fenlon, J. J.
Published: University College London (University of London) 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.564983