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  • 2 - Modality Effects

  • Diane Brentari, University of Chicago
  • Book:
    Sign Language Phonology
    Published online:
    04 November 2019
    Print publication:
    21 November 2019, pp 44-74

  • Summary

    There are numerous differences between signed and spoken languages due to the different communication modalities they use, but which ones actually matter for phonology? In this chapter, a range of differences will be laid out: environmental ones, those that depend on the signal, and those related to phonetic and phonological forms. Through the course of this discussion we will see that, despite the major differences between the visual-gestural and auditory-vocal systems used in the two types of languages, many of the same abstract mechanisms are employed by signed and spoken languages.