Patrícia do Carmo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Patrícia do Carmo plays a role.
Articles
2017 Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language Sign Language & Linguistics 20:1, pp. 109–128 | Article
In Sao Tome and Principe there are approximately five thousand deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. Until recently, these people had no language to use among them other than basic home signs used only to communicate with their families. With this communication gap in mind, a project was set up… read more
2013 Handshape is the hardest path in Portuguese Sign Language acquisition: Towards a universal modality constraint Sign Language & Linguistics 16:1, pp. 75–90 | Article
Sign languages have only been acknowledged as true languages in the second half of the 20th century. Studies on their ontogenesis are recent and include mostly comparative approaches to spoken language and sign language acquisition. Studies on sign language acquisition show that of the manual… read more