France

by Roseline Ngcheong-Lum and Ayesha Ercelawn

Only recently has linguistic research recognized sign languages as legitimate human languages with properties analogous to those cataloged for French or Navajo, for example. There are many different sign languages, which can be analyzed on a variety of levelsphonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semanticsin the same way as spoken languages. Yet the recognition that not all of the principles established for spoken languages hold for sign languages...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0836822609
• ISBN13: 9780836822601
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.9" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9