Sentence examples for signed language from inspiring English sources

The book takes us through the intricacies of spoken, written and signed language.

While spoken or signed language is a more or less universal human competence that has been characteristic of the species from the beginning and that is commonly acquired by human beings without systematic instruction, writing is a technology of relatively recent history that must be taught to each generation of children.

However, Theresa and co-workers (1990) studied on effects of video based training on spoken and signed language acquisition by students using both video plus therapist methods with mental retardation and found significantly higher sign production scores than the video only method.

Linguists did not consider signed language to be true "language", but rather something inferior.

Prior to the birth of ASL, signed language had been used by various communities in the United States.

Stokoe noted that signed language shares the important features that oral languages have as a means of communication, and even devised a transcription system for ASL.

Where spoken languages operate acoustically, signed languages work spatially.

Could the same thing be happening in other signed languages?

None of the hearing participants were practiced in sign languages, manually signed languages, or lip-reading.

There are many different signed languages around the world.

He just kept giving me sign language over his belly.