> Sign language has less bandwidth than speaking... Do you have a citation for this claim? The research I can find seems to show that signers and oral speakers

> Sign language has less bandwidth than speaking... Do you have a citation for this claim? The research I can find seems to show that signers and oral speakers convey concepts at roughly the same rate with ASL perhaps slightly more efficient than orally spoken english. (Signers use fewer signs per second than oral speakers do words but compress more information into each sign, or perhaps simply omit extraneous information that has no effect on the meaning.)