Lexical comprehension within and across sign languages of Belgium, China and the Netherlands

There are hundreds of known sign languages around the world today, distinct languages each with its own historical and cultural context. Nevertheless, it is well known among signers who move through international spaces and across signing communities that a certain degree of mutual intelligibility is achievable during so-called cross-signing, even between historically unrelated sign languages. This has been explained by shared experiences, translanguaging competence and a higher degree of iconicity in the lexicons of sign languages. In this paper, I investigate one aspect of mutual intelligibi... Mehr ...