Looking at sign languages | 10-Minute Talks
This talk introduces research on the sign languages of deaf communities: natural, complex human languages, both similar to and different from spoken languages. It includes discussion of sign language and the evolution of human language; sign language and the brain, and sign language acquisition by young children, as well as the history and future of British Sign Language (BSL).
Speaker: Professor Bencie Woll FBA, Professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies, University College London
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