A new study shows that American Sign Language (ASL) is more linguistically complex than previously understood. In particular, research appearing in the June 2022 issue of the journal Language, ...

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A new study of American Sign Language suggests one potential reason for why languages change over time: we just want to make our lives a little easier. Speakers, ideas, and technologies all seem to ...

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An international team of linguistics experts has traced the origins of the most common modern sign languages using a computer model to compare them against one another. The research is published in ...

While the differences between sign language and speech are significant, the underlying neural processes we use to create complex expressions for both are quite similar, new research suggests. For both ...

It’s never too late to learn a language. And what better day to take up a new tongue than the International Day of Sign Languages? The holiday celebrates the 300-plus different sign languages used by ...

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American Sign Language isn’t a translation of English. It’s a language with its own grammar and idioms. Sign language speakers also have their own accents. Learn how this language, like every other, ...