Hong Kong Sign Language
From AASL
| Language name | Hong Kong Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Region | Hong Kong |
Language name
Hong Kong Sign Language
(Indigenous names) Heung Kong Sau Yue
Region
Population of signers
20,000 (2007).
Language family
Dialects
Linguistic characteristics
History
Related sign languages
Related spoken languages
Institutes, associations and universities
Dictionaries
Tang, Gladys. 2007. Hong Kong Sign Language : A Trilingual Dictionary with Linguistic Descriptions. The Chinese University Press.
Chinese YMCA Hong Kong, Taipei YMCA, Kuala Lumpur YMCA, Osaka YMCA eds. 1989. Speaking with Signs.(Fourth Version) Osaka: Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Languageand Malaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]
Chinese YMCA Hong Kong, Taipei YMCA, The Society for the Deaf in Selangor and the Federal Teritory, Osaka YMCA eds. 1984. Speaking with Signs.(Third Version) Osaka: OsakaYMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language andMalaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]
1980. Speaking with Signs.(Second Version) Osaka:Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language andJapanese Sign Language ]
1979. Speaking with Signs.(Book One) Hong Kong:Chinese YMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language andJapanese Sign Language ]
Goodstadt, Rose Yin-Chee. 1972. Speaking with signs; a sign language manual for Hongkong's deaf. Hong Kong: Government Printer.
Bibliography
Lam, Wai Sze. 2009. Early Phrase Structure in Hong Kong Sign Language: A Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tang, Gladys. 2009. Acquiring FINISH in Hong Kong Sign Language. In : James. H-Y. Tai and Jane Tsay eds. Taiwan Sign Language and beyond. Chia-Yi, Taiwan: The Taiwan Institute for the Humanities, National Chung Cheng University. 21-48.
Fung, Cat Hiu Man, Scholastica Lam, Joe Mak and Gladys Tang. 2008. Establishment of a corpus of Hong Kong Sign Language acquisition data: From ELAN to CLAN. In : Proceedings of Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora, Marrakech, Morocco. 17-21.
Fung, Cat Hiu Man, Felix Sze, Scholastica Lam, Gladys Tang. 2008. Simultaneity vs sequentiality: Developing a transcription system of Hong Kong Sign Language acquisition data. In : Proceedings of Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora, Marrakech, Morocco. 22-27.
Lam, Scholastica and Gladys Tang. 2008. The effect of Input Ambiguity on Head Directionality in early HKSL. Paper presented at the Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 11-12 December 2008.
Mak, Joe and Gladys Tang. 2008. Movement - Simultaneity And Dynamicity In The Phonological System Of Hong Kong Sign Language. The First SignTyp Conference, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, 26-28 June 2008.
Sze, Felix. 2008. Blinks and intonational phrases in Hong Kong Sign Language. In : Quer Josep ed. Signs of the Time : Selected Papers from TISLR 2004. Hamburg : Signum. 83-107.
Wong, Yuet On. 2008. Acquisition of Handshape in Hong Kong Sign Language: A Case Study. MPhil thesis, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tang, Gladys, Scholastica LAM, Felix SZE, Prudence LAU, Jafi LEE 2008. Acquiring verb agreement in HKSL: Optional or obligatory? In : Proceedings of the 9th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil, Editora Arara Azul. 613-638.
Tang, Gladys. 2008. Hong Kong Sign Language 1. (1st Edition), Hong Kong: Centre for Sign Linguistics & Deaf Studies, Department of Linguistics & Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tang, Gladys and Yang Gu. 2007. Events of motion and causation in Hong Kong Sign Language. In : Lingua. 117. 1216-1257.
Tang, Gladys. 2007. The Acquisition of Perfective Aspect in Hong Kong Sign Language. Paper presented at the Workshop on Acquisition of Functional Categories in Asian Languages, 26 December 2007, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tang, Gladys. 2007. Grammaticalizing FINISH into a perfective aspect marker in HKSL. Paper presented at The Workshop on Acquisition of Functional Categories in Asian Languages, December 26th, 2007, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tang, Gladys, Felix Sze and Scholastic Lam. 2007. Acquisition of Simultaneous Constructions by Deaf Children of Hong Kong Sign Language. In : Vermeerbergen, Myriam, Lorraine Leeson and Onno Alex Crasborn eds. Simultaneity in signed languages: form and function. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 283–316.
Lee, Jafi Yin Fai. 2006. Negation in Hong Kong Sign Language. Unpublished MPhil. Dissertation. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tang, Gladys. 2006. Acquisition of Aspect in Hong Kong Sign Language by a Deaf Child. Paper presented at First Conference on Comparative Study of East Asian Sign Languages. Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, Sept 16-17, 2006.
Tang, Gladys. and Yang Gu. 2006. Events of motion and causation in Hong Kong Sign Language. In : Lingua (117)7, 1216-1257.
Tang, Gladys. 2006. Negative and Interrogative Constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language’. In Ulrike Zeshan ed. Sign Language Typology: Interrogatives and Negation. Nijmegen: Ishara Press.
Tang, Gladys, Scholastica Lam, Felix Sze, Prudence Lau. and Jafi Lee. 2006. Acquisition of verb agreement in Hong Kong Sign Language. Paper presented at the Ninth Conference on Theoretical Issues on Sign Language Research (TISLR9), Florianopolis, Brazil. 6-9 December, 2006.
Tang, Gladys and Scholastica Lam. 2006. Child Acquisition of Verbs in Hong Kong Sign Language, Paper presented at the 11th Symposium on Contemporary Linguistics, Tianjin, China, 13-15 October 2006.
Tang, Gladys. 2006. Questions and negation in Hong Kong Sign Language. In : In: Zeshan, Ulrike. ed. Interrogative and Negative Constructions in Sign Languages. Sign Language Typology Series No. 1. Nijmegen: Ishara Press. 198-224.
Tang, Gladys, Scholastica Lam, Jafi Lee and Denise Chan. 2005. Effective learning: a Deaf Sign Language perspective. In: Proceedings of Hong Kong Red Cross Special Education & Rehabilitation Service 50th Anniversary International Conference 2004. 81-92.
Osugi, Yutaka. 2004. The ongoing project on "Practical dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages". In: Sign Language Communication Studies. (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 53(2004.09):12-20. [Including information of Asia (general), Cambodia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam ]
Lam, Wai-Sze 2003: Verb Agreement in Hong Kong sign Language. The Chinese. University of Hong Kong. Master thesis.
Tang, Gladys. 2003. Classifiers of Hong Kong Sign Language: Conflation and Lexicalization. In Emmorey, Karen ed. Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates. 143-167.
Tang, Gladys. 2003. Verbs of Motion and Location in Hong Kong Sign Language: Conflation and Lexicalization. In Emmorey, Karen ed. Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages. Mahwah, NJ: USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 143-165.
Lee, Wai Fung. 2002. Aspect in Hong Kong Sign Language. Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tang, Gladys, and Felix Sze. 2002. Nominal expressions in Hong Kong Sign Language: does modality make a difference? In Meier, Richard P., David Quinto and Kearsy Cormier eds. Modality in Language and Linguistic Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 296-321.
Tang, Gladys. 2001. Classifiers of Hong Kong Sign Language: A Semantic Universals Perspective.’ In Zhang, Zheng-sheng ed. Proceedings of the 12th North American Conference. on Chinese Linguistics San Diego: San Diego State University. 187-207.
Sze, Yim Binh Felix. 2000. Word Order of Hong Kong Sign Language. In : Baker, Anne, Beppie van den Bogaerde and Onno Crasborn eds. Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research. Selected papers from TISLR 2000. 2003. Hamburg: Signum Verlag. 163-192.
Kobayashi, Masayuki. 2000. Deaf in Asia(7) : Hong Kong. In: Sign Language Communication Studies. (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 36(2000.06) :60-63.
Goodstadt, Rose Yin-Chee. 1970. Speaking with Signs: a sign language manual for Hong Kong's deaf. Hong Kong: Government Printer.
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| East Asia | Amami O Shima Sign Language | Chinese Sign Language | Japanese Sign Language | Korean Sign Language : North Korea | Korean Sign Language : South Korea | Mongolian Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Southeast Asia | Bali Sign Language | Ban Khor Sign Language | Benkala Sign Language | Hill Country Sign Language | Indonesian Sign Language | Kuala Lumpur Sign Language | Laos Sign Language | Malaysian Sign Language | Original Bangkok Sign Language | Original Chiangmai Sign Language | Penang Sign Language | Philippine Sign Language | Selangor Sign Language | Singapore Sign Language | Thai Sign Language | Vietnamese Sign Language |
| South Asia | Bengali Sign Language | Jhankot Sign Language | Jumla Sign Language | Indian Sign Language | Indo-Pakistan Sign Language | Naga Sign Language | Nepalese Sign Language | Sri Lankan Sign Language |
| West Asia | Afghan Sign Language |
| Areas and others | Hong Kong Sign Language | Macao Sign Language | Taiwanese Sign Language |
