The signs of language revisited : an anthology to honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima /
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| Imprint: | Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. |
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| Description: | xv, 580 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4846441 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Contributors
- I. Reminiscences
- 1. Two Memorable Meals With Ursula and Ed
- 2. American Sign Language Linguistics 1970-1980: Memoir of a Renaissance
- 3. A Fish Story for Ursula and Other Remembrances
- II. Historical and Comparative Analyses of Sign Languages
- 4. Sign Languages and Sign Language Families in Thailand and Viet Nam
- 5. Lexical Comparison of Signs From American, Australian, British, and New Zealand Sign Languages
- 6. Origins of the American Deaf-World: Assimilating and Differentiating Societies and Their Relation to Genetic Patterning
- III. Language in the Visual-Spatial Modality
- 7. Sign Language Research at the Millennium
- 8. Attentional Resources and Working Memory: A New Framework for the Study of the Impact of Deafness on Cognition
- 9. When Does Modality Matter? Evidence From ASL on the Nature of Working Memory
- 10. A Pilot Study of the Expressive Gestures Used by Classical Orchestra Conductors
- 11. An Interpreter Creates the Space
- IV. Linguistic Analysis of Sign Languages
- 12. More Than Just Handwaving: The Mutual Contributions of Sign Language and Linguistics
- 13. Phonological and Prosodic Layering of Nonmanuals in American Sign Language
- 14. A Two-Handed Manual Alphabet in the United States
- 15. Iconicity and Transparency in Sign Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Cross-Cultural View
- 16. Codeswitching in ASL and Written English Language Contact
- 17. Indicating Verbs and Pronouns: Pointing Away From Agreement
- V. Language Acquisition
- 18. Viewing Deaf Children in a New Way: Implications of Bellugi and Klima's Research for Education
- 19. Shared Motoric Factors in the Acquisition of Sign and Speech
- 20. Explorations of Enhanced Gestural Input to Children in the Bimodal Period
- 21. Early and Late in Language Acquisition: Aspects of the Syntax and Acquisition of Wh-Questions in American Sign Language
- 22. Bringing Affective Expression Into the Service of Language: Acquiring Perspective Marking in Narratives
- 23. Search for the Missing Link: The Development of Skilled Reading in Deaf Children
- 24. On the Biological Foundations of Human Language
- VI. The Neural Organization of Sign Language
- 25. Language and the Brain
- 26. Some Observations Regarding Paraphasia in American Sign Language
- 27. The Structure of Language as Motor Behavior: Clues From Signers With Parkinson's Disease
- 28. On the Uniqueness of Language
- Author Index
- Subject Index