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A new study shows that American Sign Language (ASL) is more linguistically complex than previously understood. In particular, research appearing in the June 2022 issue of the journal Language, ...

An international team of linguistics experts has traced the origins of the most common modern sign languages using a computer model to compare them against one another. The research is published in ...

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It’s never too late to learn a language. And what better day to take up a new tongue than the International Day of Sign Languages? The holiday celebrates the 300-plus different sign languages used by ...

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While the differences between sign language and speech are significant, the underlying neural processes we use to create complex expressions for both are quite similar, new research suggests. For both ...

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