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  linguistics - HighBeam Encyclopedia
LINGUISTICS [linguistics] scientific study of language, covering the structure (morphology and syntax; see grammar), sounds (phonology), and meaning (semantics), as well as the history of the relations of languages to each other and the cultural place of language in human behavior.
Through the comparison of language structures, such 19th-century European linguists as Jakob Grimm, Rasmus Rask, Karl Brugmann, and Antoine Meillet, as well as the American William Dwight Whitney, did much to establish the existence of the Indo-European family of languages.
In contrast to theoretical schools of linguistics, workers in applied linguistics in the latter part of the 20th cent.
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 sign language -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A sign language (also signed language) is a language which uses manual communication instead of sound to...
American Sign Language (ASL) is a complex visual-spatial language that is used by the Deaf...
Sign Language Associates (SLA) is the oldest, largest, and most successful private interpreting service provider in the country with a national reputation for quality and performance excellence...
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 linguistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Linguistics in SIL focuses on conducting research in undocumented minority languages, training field linguists, and providing resources to assist in linguistic data collection and analysis.
The Department of Linguistics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the oldest and most distinguished departments of linguistics in the United States, attracting graduate students from all over the world.
Stanford University Department of Linguistics is a vibrant center of...
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 Sign language research @ Radboud University Nijmegen
The prize emphasises the impact of Wim Emmerik's contribution to sign language research as a deaf researcher as well as his role in promoting the place of NGT in the Netherlands.
One of the five case studies in this project concerns sign language, and is carried out by us in cooperation with the University of Stockholm and City University in London.
Onno Crasborn (to appear) A linguistic analysis of the use of the two hands in sign language poetry.
www.let.kun.nl /sign-lang   (872 words)

  
 Web resources - BU linguistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
CAL digest 1999: American Sign Language as a Foreign Language
Projects related to annotation and linguistic analysis of signed languages
This page is part of the BU Undergraduate Linguistics Site, maintained by Carol Neidle, carol@bu.edu.
www.bu.edu /linguistics/UG/otherlx.html   (437 words)

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