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/ STOH-kee) is the first phonemic script used for sign languages. It was created by William Stokoe for American Sign Language...

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...

languages used throughout the world. It was established in 1972 with William Stokoe of Gallaudet University as founding editor-in-chief. It covers linguistic...

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...

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

sign language or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe in the 1960s. This sign language consists of parameters that determine...

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...