In any community, language is the most important method for communicating with others. However, for a deaf person like me, it is difficult to connect with many people and speak in the same ways. This ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — Ronnie Wilbur, a professor in Purdue’s Department of Linguistics in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Liberal Arts, has been named a fellow of the Linguistic ...

Humans have a natural drive to reduce physical effort in nearly every activity, including using language. Instead of saying "goodbye", we often say "bye", getting the same message across with half the ...

A new study of the educational needs of students who are native users of American Sign Language (ASL) shows glaring disparities in their treatment by the U.S Department of Education. A new study of ...

Two years after the program’s inception, this semester marks the first time that students have been able to fulfill the University’s language requirement using the American Sign Language (ASL) ...

In 2016, American Sign Language was the third most studied language in American postsecondary schools. That same year, The Daily Princetonian’s Editorial Board released this piece urging Princeton to ...

This particular sign reflects a building emotion, either a growing rage or a burning desire, said fourth-year geography and environmental studies student Valerie Rose, whose hands are shown. The sign ...

Sign languages are fully fledged natural languages that employ the visual-gestural modality to express phonological, morphological and syntactic structures. At the phonological level, signs are built ...

For most people, attending a concert is all about the sounds of a live performance. But sign language interpreter Holly Maniatty makes concerts come alive for the hearing impaired too. She's worked ...

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It investigates the subconscious and systematic knowledge that speakers of a language possess. Such knowledge allows them to communicate and ...