The interaction of eye blinks and other prosodic cues in German sign language

Sign Language and Linguistics (Online)

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-39

  Herrmann, Annika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye blinks; German sign language (DGS); Intonation; Nonmanual features; Prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957132900     PISSN: 13879316     EISSN: 1569996X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sll.13.1.02her     Document Type: Article

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