Fall 2026

Sign Language Linguistics

Introduction to the linguistics of sign languages, their communities, and acquisition patterns

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Laura Horton

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.78 GPA, 92.6% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

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LINGUIS 101 or ANTHRO/​LINGUIS 301

LINGUIS 375

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Professors

Fall 2026

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.78 GPA, 92.6% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

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LAURA HORTON is recorded teaching in Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Fall 2026

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction14 / 300

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.78 GPA, 92.6% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Grammar of sign languages
  • Use in signing communities
  • Perceptions of deaf people and sign languages
  • Transmission and acquisition patterns
  • Emergence of new sign languages

Skills

  • Linguistic analysis of sign languages
  • Understanding sign language acquisition and transmission
  • Analyzing the emergence of new sign languages

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LINGUIS 375 · Fall 2026

Sign Language Linguistics

Recorded 2026-09-07
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