Entries from Group 4 Language Blog tagged with 'Psych 440-Amy Graham-from the field'

Signers Need Facial Expressions

I remember reading in Talking Hands about how important facial expressions are when signing to someone. Iâ??ve been told that I use a lot of facial expressions when I speak and was interested to see just how signers utilize them...

A few more details on accents

After watching the films in class which help us to look at the different accents across the country I thought it would be interesting to learn a bit more about the main features of accents because in one form or...

Deaf people learn to speak

In chapter 3 of Umâ?¦there is a paragraph on page 56 that writes about how sign languages have ways of indicating pauses; the language allows for a way to say â??umâ?¦â?? just as people without hearing difficulties can do. With...