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Basic information of the country/area
Name of the country/area Hong Kong
Formal name of the country/area Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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Contents

Indigenous signs for "Hong Kong"

Illustrations in the literature

"Hong Kong" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 16.)


Spoken languages

Chinese

English


Sign languages

Hong Kong Sign Language


Related sign languages:

American Sign Language


Population of Deaf/deaf people

The population of the signers of Hong Kong Sign Language: 20,000 (2007). (Ethnologue web Edition)


Legal status of sign languages

Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf

Hong Kong Association of the Deaf (WFD member)


Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies

Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong


Education for the deaf

Sign language interpretation

  • Asia Pacific region survey from WASLI. 2007. WASLI Newsletter 2007 Issue 6. (See Bibliography below).

1.The number of sign language interpreters that are working:

2.

2. The sign language in the country :

Cantonese Sign Language (modified from Shanghai Sign Language); Mainland Chinese Sign Language; some American Sign Language

3. Spoken languages:

Cantonese

4. This country has some Interpreter training programmes.

5. The rates for using a sign language interpreter(given in US Dollars according the exchange rate 13/9/06):

Per Hour : N/A
Deaf People : No charge
NGO’s : N/A
Companies or Businesses : N/A
Other : 53.00 for 2 hours


Deaf communities and cultures

Religious activities by the Deaf

Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages

Sign language 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 of Hong Kong Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language and 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 of Hong Kong Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language and Malaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]

1980. Speaking with Signs.(Second Version) Osaka:Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary of Hong Kong Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language and Japanese Sign Language ]

1979. Speaking with Signs.(Book One) Hong Kong:Chinese YMCA. [A dictionary of Hong Kong Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language and Japanese Sign Language ]

Goodstadt, Rose Yin-Chee. 1972. Speaking with signs; a sign language manual for Hongkong's deaf. Hong Kong: Government Printer.


Bibliography

Benedicto, Elena, Chiara Branchini, Lara Mantovan and Robin Shay. 2016. Decomposing the internal structure of motion predicates in three sign languages: LIS, HKSL, ASL. Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference (TISLR 12).

Li, Jia and Gladys Tang. 2016. Relative clauses in Hong Kong Sign Language. Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference (TISLR 12).

Li, Jieqiong and Gladys Tang. 2016. Acquisition of Personal Pronouns by an HKSL-Cantonese Bilingual Deaf Child: A Case Study. Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference (TISLR 12).

Siu, Rebecca. 2016. Sociolinguistic Variation in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL): the Lexical and Phonological Levels. Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference (TISLR 12).

Tang, Gladys and Li Jia. 2016. Classifier Verbs and Word Order Variation in Deaf Children’s Acquisition of Classifier Constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language. Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference (TISLR 12).

Tang, Gladys. 2015. The Linguistic Basis of Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrollment in Educating Deaf Children: A Hong Kong Case Study. Keynote presentation at 2nd International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition, 1-3 July 2015, Amsterdam.

Cao. 2015. Acquisition of prosodic cues at intonational phrase boundaries in Hong Kong Sign Language. Oral presentation at 2nd International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition, 1-3 July 2015, Amsterdam.

Li and Gladys Tang. 2015. Acquisition of personal pronouns in HKSL by an HKSL-Cantonese bilingual deaf child: A Case Study. Poster presentation at 2nd International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition, 1-3 July 2015, Amsterdam.

Sze, Felix, Gladys Tang, Wei and Cheung. 2015. Bilingual-bimodal acquisition of spatial referencing in Cantonese and HKSL narratives. Poster presentation at 2nd International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition, 1-3 July 2015, Amsterdam.

Xu. 2015. Acquisition of Prosodic Cues at Intonational Phrase Boundary in Hong Kong Sign Language: a Preliminary Analysis. Poster presentation at 2nd International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition, 1-3 July 2015, Amsterdam.

Benedicto, Elena and Gladys Tang. 2013. Parametric variation in H1/H2 Shift: Switch Reference in Serial Verb Constructions HKSL. Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR11)

Fung, Cat H.-M. and Gladys Tang. 2013. A Universal Explanation for Code-blending and Code-switching. Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR11)

Lam, Scholastica and Pippen Wong. 2013. Acquisition of Verb Agreement in Hong Kong Sign Language by Late Learners in the Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme . Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR11)

Lau, Sin Yee Prudence. 2013. The Realization of Shared Argument(s) in Serial Verb Constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language. Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR11)

Li, Jia, Scholastica Lam and Cat H-M. Fung. 2013. Acquisition of nonmanual adverbials in Hong Kong Sign Langauge by deaf children in the Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme. Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR11)

Sze, Felix Yim-Binh and Betty Cheung. 2013. Development of discourse referencing in Hong Kong Sign Language narratives by Deaf/hard-of-hearing children in the Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme (English) . Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR11)

Sze, Felix Yim-Binh, Connie Chun-Yi Lo, Lisa Sui-Wah Lo and Kenny Kwan-Ngai Chu. 2013. Lexical Variations and Diachronic Change in Hong Kong Sign Language. Poster presentation at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR11)

Lam, Scholastica. 2013. Effect of Ambiguous Input on Acquisition of Verb Agreement in HKSL. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2013, 30 January – 2 February 2013. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lau, Sin Yee Prudence. 2013. Serial Verb Constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2013, 30 January – 2 February 2013. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Li, Jia, Scholastica Lam and Cat H.-M. Fung. 2013. Acquisition of nonmanual adverbials in Hong Kong Sign Language Poster presentation at the International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2013, 30 January – 2 February 2013. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Mak, Joe. 2013. Sonority and Continuancy in HKSL. Presentation at the International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2013, 30 January – 2 February 2013. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Sze, Felix, Kenny Chu, Connie Lo and Lisa Lo. 2013. Lexical Variations and Diachronic Change in Hong Kong Sign Language: Preliminary observations. Presentation at the International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2013, 30 January – 2 February 2013. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Tang, Gladys and Jia He. 2013. On the nature of instrument in the classifier predicates of Hong Kong Sign Language and Tianjin Sign Language. Presentation at the International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2013, 30 January – 2 February 2013. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Sze, Felix, Kenny Chu, Connie Lo and Lisa Lo. 2012. Lexical variations and diachronic change in Hong Kong Sign Language: preliminary observations. Paper presented in New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Asia Pacific 2, 1-4 August 2012, NINJAL, Tokyo.

Sze, Felix & Helen Lee. 2012. Negative Polar Questions in Hong Kong Sign Language. Paper presented in the 14th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Xi’an, China. May 11-13, 2012.

Sze, Felix. 2011. Non-manual markings for topic constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language. In : Sign Language and Linguistic, 14(1), 115-147.

Lam, Scholastica, Karen Cheung, Chris Yiu, Li Jia and Li Qun. 2010. Assessing Chinese literacy development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children in a sign-bilingual and co-enrolment programme in Hong Kong: From vocabulary to grammatical knowledge. Presentation at the Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2010. (Hong Kong).

Lau, Tammy, Emily Lam, Kathy Lee, Gladys Tang and Chris Yiu. 2010. The oral language profiles of children with hearing impairment: A comparison between children in a sign bilingual and co-enrolment programme and children studying in regular primary schools in Hong Kong. Presentation at the Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2010. (Hong Kong).

Lee, Jafi, Fion Wong, Scholastica Lam, Betty Cheung, Gladys Tang and Prudence Lau. 2010. Developing a formal measure of children’s proficiency in HKSL. Presentation at the Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2010. (Hong Kong).

Lo, Connie, Lisa Lo, Kenny Chu, Felix Sze and Jafi Lee. 2010. The origin of Hong Kong Sign Language and early deaf education in Hong Kong. Presentation at the Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2010. (Hong Kong).

Lo, Lisa, Kenny Chu and Connie Lo. 2010. WHY-questions in Hong Kong Sign Language. Poster presentation at the Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2010. (Hong Kong).

Mak, Joe. 2010. Are all movement features "prosodic" in HKSL? Presentation at the Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2010. (Hong Kong).

Sze Felix, Tammy LAU, Emily LAM and Chris YIU. 2010. The Development of Discourse Referencing in Deaf/hard-and-hearing Children of a Sign-bilingual Co-enrolment Education Programme: a Preliminary Study. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, 1 Dec 2010, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

Sze, Felix, Jafi Lee. 2010. Comparing basic constituent orders of Hong Kong Sign Language and Sri Lanka Sign Language. Paper presented at the 13th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 22-24 October 2010. 

Sze, Felix. 2010. Right dislocated pronominals in Hong Kong Sign Language. Paper presented at the 13th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 22-24 October 2010. 

Lam, Wai Sze. 2009. Early Phrase Structure in Hong Kong Sign Language: A Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Sze, Felix. 2009. Topic constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language. In : Sign Language and Linguistics, 12(2), 222-227.

Sze, Felix. 2009. Sign Language Research and Development in Hong Kong. Paper presented in International Seminar on Sign Language Research: Towards Deaf Empowerment Through Sign Language Research, 30 & 31 May 2009, University of Malaya. 

Sze. Felix. 2009. Non-manual markings for topic constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language. Paper presented at Workshop on "Non-manuals in sign languages (NISL)", Frankfurt, April 5th, 2009.

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.

Ho, Chloe and Felix Sze. 2008. Body Leans In Hong Kong Sign Language: Marking of Contrast. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, 6-8 December 2008 Chinese University of Hong Kong

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.

Lau, Hui Mei, Connie Lo, Felix Sze, Rachel Wong, Pippen Wong, and Ruby Yuen. 2008. Bilingual acquisition of discourse referencing in narratives in Hong Kong Sign Language and Cantonese: A preliminary Study. Paper presented at Workshop on Sign Bilingualism in the Asia-Pacific Region, 10 December 2008, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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.

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.

Sze, Felix. 2008. Blinks and Intonational Phrasing in Hong Kong Sign Language. 2008. In: Josep Quer ed. Signs of the time: selected papers from TISLR 2004. (International Studies on Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf; 51) Hamburg : Signum. pp. 83-107.

Sze, Felix. 2008. Topic constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language. Paper presented at the 12th National Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Huazhong University, Wuhan, 24-26 Oct, 2008.

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.

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 and Yang Gu. 2007. Events of motion and causation in Hong Kong Sign Language. In : Lingua. 117. 1216-1257.

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. 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, 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.

WASLI (World Association of Sign Language Interpreters ). 2007. WASLI Newsletter 2007 Issue 6 Kampala, Uganda.

Lee, Jafi Yin Fai. 2006. Negation in Hong Kong Sign Language. Unpublished MPhil. Dissertation. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Sze, Felix. 2006. Is Hong Kong Sign Language a discourse-configurational language? Poster session at the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 9 (TISLR9)

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. Acquiring verb agreement in HKSL: Optional or obligatory? 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. 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 Cheng Ka Yiu. 2005. The Nippon Foundation Asian SignBank. An International Symposium – Instructional Technology and Education of the Deaf, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA, 27-30 June 2005.

WASLI (World Association of Sign Language Interpreters). 2005. Hong Kong. In: Country report 2005. 21. Kampala, Uganda.

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.

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Sze, Felix. 2004. Non-manuals and syntactic boundaries in Hong Kong Sign Language: Preliminary observations. Proceedings of the 4th Postgraduate Research Forum on Linguistics. 31st October-1st November 2003. Hong Kong. pp.146-154.

Tang, Gladys. 2004. Event boundedness in Hong Kong Sign Language. Workshop at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 8

Wong, Ying Wai and Gladys Tang. 2004. Predicting Contact in Hong Kong Sign Language. Poster session at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 8

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Sze, Felix. 2003. Blinks and Syntactic Boundaries in Hong Kong Sign Language: a preliminary observation. Paper presented at the Australasian Deaf Studies Symposium II. September 27th - 29th . North Rocks. NSW. 

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Tang, Gladys & Felix Sze. 2003. The Acquisition of Classifier Constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language. Paper presented at the Australasian Deaf Studies Research Symposium II, Renwick College, Australia, September. 

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.

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Sze, Felix. 2001. Topic constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language. Paper presented at the Conference on Sign Linguistics, Deaf Education and Deaf Culture in Asia. December 17th – 19th Hong Kong. 

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