Syntactic correlates of brow raise in ASL

Sign Language and Linguistics (Online)

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-14

  Wilbur, Ronnie B ^a   Patschke, Cynthia ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

American Sign Language; Conceptualinterpretation; Focus constructions; Interface; Nonmanuals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989398172     PISSN: 13879316     EISSN: 1569996X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sll.2.1.03wil     Document Type: Article

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