William Clarence “Bill” Stokoe Jr. (/ˈstoʊkiː/ STOH-kee; July 21, 1919 – April 4, 2000) was an American linguist and a long-time professor at Gallaudet...

Stokoe notation (/ˈstoʊki/) is the first phonemic script used for sign languages. It was created by William Stokoe for American Sign Language (ASL), with...

Stokoe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bob Stokoe (1930–2004), English footballer and manager Dennis Stokoe (1925–2005), English...

among the deaf community in the UK. While private correspondence from William Stokoe hinted at a formal name for the language in 1960, the first usage of...

transitive verbs. (If we follow the "semantic phonology" model proposed by William Stokoe (1991) this ergative-absolutive patterning also works at the level of...

remained marginal among the public.: 154  In the 1960s, linguist William Stokoe created Stokoe notation specifically for ASL. It is alphabetic, with a letter...

of sign language to language acquisition. In 1960 when the linguist William Stokoe published Sign Language Structure, it advanced the idea that American...

contrastive. Stokoe's terminology and notation system are no longer used by researchers to describe the phonemes of sign languages; William Stokoe's research...

Dr William Norman Stokoe FRSE FRIC LLD (1892–1958) was a 20th century British organic chemist. He is primarily remembered as the scientist behind Britain's...

the 1960s, William Stokoe felt that American Sign Language was a language in its own right, with its own independent syntax and grammar. Stokoe classified...