Psycholinguistics

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Sign languages have all of the fundamental properties of spoken languages (e.g., phonology, morphology, grammar, and syntax). Sign languages combine meaningless sublexical units into larger meaningless phonetic features, phonemes and syllables into meaningful principles that determine how units of the language can combine. Sign languages, just like spoken languages, have grammatical principles that determine how units of the language can combine. Therefore, in the course basic linguistic principles will be learned and then discussed as to how they apply to sign languages.