Sign Language Typology: The Contribution of Rural Sign Languages
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Sociolinguistic Typology and Sign Languages
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Linguistics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2333-9683,2333-9691
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-124958