Chapter 2 Phonetics

• Autor principal: Crasborn, Onno (auth)
• Outros Autores: Pfau, Roland (Editor), Steinbach, Markus (Editor), Woll, Bencie (Editor)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2012
• Assuntos: linguistics; Sign Language; Language Typology; Grammar; Psycholinguistics; Neurolinguistics; Sociolinguistics
• Acesso em linha: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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 f...