This explains why some aspects of English can be hard to learn for speakers of other languages.
- Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham
Limited contact between the first British Sign Language communities created dialects that are still in use today.
What is sign language? Before we answer that question, it might be useful to first consider what a “language” is. Spoken languages are naturally developed complex systems that use a set of conventionalised…
Research needs to be presented carefully to not mislead the community. It’s worrying when information is taken out of context by the media for a news item that may only run for one day. But this is exactly…
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