Prosody in Sign Languages

This chapter addresses the debate concerning status of nonmanuals (head, face, body) as prosodic or not by exploring in detail how prosody is structured speech and what might be parallels differences sign. Prosody divided into two parts, rhythmic phrasing (timing, syllables, stress), intonation. To maximize accessibility, each part, an introduction to known for presented, followed and/or claimed sign languages. With exception internal structure languages are very similar spoken domain. In intonational domain, less strong, part because analogies nonmanual functions intonation tend based on older/simpler models There needs much more detailed research catch up with recent