ASL Linguistics
LING 90B
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Description
This course will focus on the linguistic structure of American Sign Language (ASL) and other sign languages. Students will become familiar with both features shared cross-linguistically with spoken languages (e.g. complex verbal morphosyntax, abstract hierarchical structure in general) as well as features more notable in sign languages for modality specific properties (e.g. iconicity in depictive classifiers and anaphora, language creation/emergence), taking inspiration and empirical evidence both from theoretical linguistics as well as work on sign languages in psycholinguistics and cognitive science.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Linguistics
Course Component
Tutorial
Subject
Linguistics
Grading Basis
FAS Letter Graded
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Arts and Humanities
Course Level
Primarily for Undergraduate Students
