Kedves Kollégák, föl szeretném hívni figyelmüket Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa) jövő heti előadására. A meghívót csatolva is megtalálják. We are happy to invite you to the lecture by Prof. Wendy Sandler Director, Sign Language Research Lab University of Haifa Date: Wednesday, May 4, at 11:00 Venue: Room 52 Main Building, Egyetem tér 1 University of Debrecen The Emergence of Prosody in Sign Language Abstract: All humans in every culture use gestures of the hands, face, and body to accompany and augment the linguistic stream. In sign languages of deaf communities, these signals are organized and conventionalized to form the substance of language itself. The focus of this talk is the way in which this occurs in the prosodic system of sign languages, especially the temporal delineation of prosodic constituents and the intonation of the face. While the presence of such a system in sign languages points to prosody as a universal property of human language, research on a new sign language in an insular Bedouin community shows that even universals do not arise overnight. Everyone welcome. HuComTech Research Group University of Debrecen