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...

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...

(1915–1917) – mathematician Myra Reynolds (1880–1882) – English professor William Stokoe (1946–1955) – English professor Allen W. Trelease (1955–1967) – history...

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

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...

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...