Can't you see the difference? Sources of variation in sign language structure

Visible Variation: Comparative Studies on Sign Language Structure

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-34

  Perniss, Pamela ^a   Pfau, Roland ^b   Steinbach, Markus ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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