Conlangery #129: Non-Vocal Languages

Jake Malloy and David Peterson join George to talk about sign language as well as a few other ways humans communicate non-vocally.

Top of Show Greeting: Bakom

Links and Resources:

• SLIPA
• ASL Lessons
• ASL classifiers
• Non-manual markers in ASL
• ASL Internet slang
• Plains Indian Sign Language
• Tactile Signing
• Black ASL
• Signed Exact English (signed English relex)
• SignWriting (proposed script for ASL)
• The Non-Verbal Dictionary
• The Gripping Language

• Napoli, Donna Jo and Jeff Wu. (2003) Morpheme structure constraints on two-handed signs in American Sign Language: Notions of symmetry. Sign Language & Linguistics. 6(2), 123-205.
• Sandler, W., Aronoff, M., Meir, I., & Padden, C. (2011) The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 29(2), 503–543. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-011-9128-2