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Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change

What you'll learn

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  • Historical origins in natural gesture for the emergence of ASL grammar
  • Degree and types of structural variation within ASL, considering the possible influences from its contacts with other signed and spoken languages
  • Role of visual analogy in learning ASL, considering the possible linguistic universals for signed languages
  • Ways in which language specific variation and historical change for signed languages may compare and contrast to those for spoken languages 
  • Visual, motoric, and cognitive constraints which may give rise to these phenomena

Offered By:  GeorgetownX

Course Duration:  4 Weeks

  • ₹ 3667