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Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything" (MIT Press, 2022)

New Books in Language

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Sign Language Phonicology - Is There a Difference Between Voice and Speech?

In articulating speech, we might think about things like aspiration and points of articulation. What are some of the analogous features that we might be attending to for a sign language? I discuss examples from sign language phonology in which two signs differ by just one manual feature. For example, whether you raise your eyebrows, or do not raise your eyebrows.

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