Sign Language Science: Factors Contributing to Nature Structure

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Free Online Course: Sign Language Science: Factors Contributing to Nature Structure provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 4 weeks long, 3-5 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from edX. Sign Language Science: Factors Contributing to Nature Structure is taught by Ted Supalla.

Overview
  • In this course, we will look at how people make sign language work—and to understand this, we have to analyze the actual language. In this course, Professor Ted Supalla will walk you through examples of how alterations within a sign can change its meaning and how this can affect word order in a sentence. This is discussed under the broad term “structure”, because a number of things can influence signed language grammar. Many factors have to be considered, which is why we have to take a layered, cumulative approach here.