New paper with Gab Hodge, Bodo Winter, and Kearsy Cormier on negation in British Sign Language in England: we find the most common strategy is a manual negator, headshake, and mouthing an English negator, with relatively few clauses only marked by headshake 1/2
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BSL signers combine different semiotic strategies to negate clauses
Signers of Deaf community signed languages negate clauses via manual negating signs and/or non-manual movements such as headshakes. Several claims about the dominance of manual versus non-manual negat...
