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9781410604972

The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima

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    9781410604972

  • ISBN10:

    1410604977

  • Copyright: 2000-06-12
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This volume serves as both a tribute to the scientific contributions of Ursula Bellugi and Ed Klima and as a demonstration of the impact of sign language studies on the areas of language and cognitive processes. For students and scholars alike.

Table of Contents

Preface
Reminiscences
Two Memorable Meals With Ursula and Ed
American Sign Language Linguistics 1970-1980: Memoir of a Renaissance
A Fish Story for Ursula and Other Remembrances
Historical and Comparative Analyses of Sign Languages
Sign Languages and Sign Language Families in Thailand and Vietnam
Lexical Comparisons of Signs From American, Australian, British, and New Zealand Sign Languages
Origins of the American Deaf-World: Assimilating and Differentiating Societies and Their Relation to Genetic Patterning
Language in the Visual-Spatial Modality
Sign Language Research at the Millennium
Attentional Resources and Working Memory: A New Framework for the Study of the Impact of Deafness on Cognition
When Does Modality Matter? Evidence From ASL on the Nature of Working Memory
A Pilot Study of the Expressive Gestures Used by Classical Orchestra Conductors
An Interpreter Creates the Space
Linguistic Analysis of Sign Languages
More Than Just Handwaving: The Mutual Contributions of Sign Language and Linguistics
Phonological and Prosodic Layering of Nonmanuals in American Sign Language
A Two-Handed Manual Alphabet in the United States
Iconicity and Transparency in Sign Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Cross-Cultural View
Codeswitching in ASL and Written English Language Contact
Indicating Verbs and Pronouns: Pointing Away From Agreement
Language Acquisition
Viewing Deaf Children in a New Way: Implications of Bellugi and Klima's Research for Education
Shared Motoric Factors in the Acquisition of Sign and Speech
Explorations of Enhanced Gestural Input to Children in the Bimodal Period
Early and Late in Language Acquisition: Aspects of the Syntax and Acquisition of Wh-Questions in American Sign Language
Bringing Affective Expression Into the Service of Language: Acquiring Perspective Marking in Narratives
Search for the Missing Link: The Development of Skilled Reading in Deaf Children
On the Biological Foundations of Human Language
The Neural Organization of Sign Language
Language and the Brain
Some Observations Regarding Paraphasia in American Sign Language
The Structure of Language as Motor Behavior: Clues From Signers With Parkinson's Disease
On the Uniqueness of Language
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