Chapter 2 Phonetics

• Egile nagusia: Crasborn, Onno (auth)
• Beste egile batzuk: Pfau, Roland (Argitaratzailea), Steinbach, Markus (Argitaratzailea), Woll, Bencie (Argitaratzailea)
• Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa Liburu kapitulua
• Hizkuntza: ingelesa
• Argitaratua: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2012
• Gaiak: linguistics; Sign Language; Language Typology; Grammar; Psycholinguistics; Neurolinguistics; Sociolinguistics
• Sarrera elektronikoa: 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...