Signed languages : discoveries from international research
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Signed languages : discoveries from international research
Gallaudet University Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Why not give us : an articulatory constraint in signed languages / Gaurav Mathur and Christian Rathmann
- Weak drop in sign language of the Netherlands / Els van der Kooij
- The discourse function of noun classifiers in Swedish sign language / Brita Bergman and Lars Wallin
- Signs without hands : nonhanded signs in American sign language / Valerie L. Dively
- Motion and transfer : the analysis of two verb classes in Israeli sign language / Irit Meir
- Functional consequences of modality : spatial coding in working memory for signs / Margaret Wilson and Karen Emmorey
- Proximalization and distalization of sign movement in adult learners / Gene Mirus, Christian Rathmann, and Richard P. Meier
- The emergence of narrative discourse in two young deaf children / Astrid Vercaingne-Ménard, Lucie Godard, and Marie Labelle
- Analyzing variation in sign language / Rob Hoopes, Mary Rose, Robert Bayley, Ceil Lucas, Alyssa Wulf, Karen Petronio, and Steven Collins
- Politeness and Venezuelan sign language / Lourdes Pietrosemoli
- ASL in northern Nigeria : will Hausa sign language survive? / Constanze Schmaling
- Complex superposition of metaphors in an ASL poem / Sarah F. Taub
- British sign language poetry : a linguistic analysis of the work of Dorothy Miles / Rachel Sutton-Spence
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Description
This collection presents research from the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research conference. Part one addresses articulatory constraints and the Dutch Sign Language. Part two tackles noun classifiers, nonhanded signs, and verb classes. Part three offers "Functional Consequences of Modality." Part four analyzes language acquisition. Part five studies the relationship between language and society. Part six considers the techniques employed in British Sign Language poetry and American Sign Language poetry.
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