Comparing the Lexicons of Japanese Sign Language and Taiwan Sign Language: A Preliminary Study Focusing on the Difference in the Handshape Parameter

Autor/a: SASAKI, Daisuke
Año: 2007
Editorial: Gallaudet University Press
Tipo de código: Copyright
Soporte: Digital

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Lingüística » Lingüística de otras Lenguas de Signos

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It is often said that sign languages in Taiwan and Korea are quite similar to Japanese Sign Language (JSL) (e.g., Smith 1989, 1990). Yasuhiro Ichida, a hearing signer and researcher of JSL, made a trip to Korea in the spring of 2002 and reports on the similarity between JSL and Korean Sign Language (KSL): “First of all, the overall impression was that the difference between Korean Sign Language (KSL) and Japanese Sign Language (JSL) could be regarded as a dialectal difference.¹ Many of the basic vocabulary items are similar. 

En D. Quinto-Pozos (Ed.), Sign Languages in Contact.