William Stokoe and the discipline of sign language linguistics

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ID5156044
AuthorsSusan Lloyd Mcburney (University of Washington), Susan Mcburney (University of Washington, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume28
Issue1-2
Pages143-186
Publication date2001-09-07
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistoriographia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/hl.28.1.10mcb
OpenAlexW2048512076
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited26

The first modern linguistic analysis of a signed language was published in 1960 - William Clarence Stokoe's (1919-2000)Sign Language Structure. Although the initial impact of Stokoe's monograph on linguistics and education was minimal, his work formed a solid base for what was to become a new field of research: American Sign Language (ASL) Linguistics. Together with the work of those that followed (in particular Ursula Bellugi and colleagues), Stokoe's ground-breaking work on the structure of ASL has led to an acceptance of signed languages as autonomous linguistic systems that exhibit the complex structure characteristic of all human languages

American Sign Language · Applied linguistics · Linguistics · Sign (mathematics · Sign language · Sociology · Hand Gesture Recognition Systems · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Philosophy

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