Current Issues in ASL Phonology
Title | Current Issues in ASL Phonology PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey R. Coulter |
Publisher | Academic Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2014-05-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1483217574 |
Phonetics and Phonology, Volume 3: Current Issues in ASL Phonology deals with theoretical issues in the phonology of ASL (American Sign Language), the signed language of the American Deaf. These issues range from the overall architecture of phonological theory to particular proposals such as the nature of syllables and the reality of underlying "dynamic" or "contour" elements. The seemingly universal preference, CV (consonant-vowel) as opposed to VC (vowel-consonant) syllable structure, is also discussed. Comprised of 14 chapters, this volume begins with some general background on ASL and on the community in which it is used. It then looks at secondary licensing and the nature of constraints on the non-dominant hand in ASL; underspecification in ASL handshape contours; and the nature of ASL and the development of ASL linguistics. The applicability of the notion of "phonology" to a signed language and the sort of questions that can be explored about the parallelisms between signed and spoken linguistic systems are also considered. Later chapters focus on the linearization of phonological tiers in ASL; phonological segmentation in sign and speech; two models of segmentation in ASL; and sonority and syllable structure in ASL. The book also examines phrase-level prosody in ASL before concluding with an analysis of linguistic expression and its relation to modality. This monograph will appeal to phonologists who work on both signed and spoken languages, and to other cognitive scientists interested in the nature of abstract articulatory representations in human language.
Current Issues in ASL Phonology
Title | Current Issues in ASL Phonology PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Restall Coulter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | American Sign Language |
ISBN | 9780121932503 |
Sign Language Phonology
Title | Sign Language Phonology PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Brentari |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2019-11-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107113474 |
Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Volume 1
Title | Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Susan D. Fischer |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1990-11-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780226251509 |
Only recently has linguistic research recognized sign languages as legitimate human languages with properties analogous to those cataloged for French or Navajo, for example. There are many different sign languages, which can be analyzed on a variety of levels—phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics—in the same way as spoken languages. Yet the recognition that not all of the principles established for spoken languages hold for sign languages has made sign languages a crucial testing ground for linguistic theory. Edited by Susan Fischer and Patricia Siple, this collection is divided into four sections, reflecting the traditional core areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Although most of the contributions consider American Sign Language (ASL), five treat sign languages unrelated to ASL, offering valuable perspectives on sign universals. Since some of these languages or systems are only recently established, they provide a window onto the evolution and growth of sign languages.
A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology
Title | A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Brentari |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780262024457 |
Superior to any other book on the subject that I have seen. I can see it being used as a class text or reference for current theory in sign language phonology.Carol A. Padden, Department of Communication, University of California
Sign Language Research
Title | Sign Language Research PDF eBook |
Author | Ceil Lucas |
Publisher | Gallaudet University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780930323585 |
The second international conference on sign language research, hosted by Gallaudet University, yielded critical findings in vital linguistic disciplines -- phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Sign Language Research brings together in a fully synthesized volume the work of 24 of the researchers invited to this important gathering. Scholars from Belgium to India, from Finland to Uganda, and from Japan to the United States, exchanged the latest developments in sign language research worldwide. Now, the results of their findings are in this comprehensive volume complete with illustrations and photographs.
The First Glot International State-of-the-Article Book
Title | The First Glot International State-of-the-Article Book PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Cheng |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2014-10-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110822865 |
The Glot International State-of-the-Article books constitute the ideal solution for everyone who wants to have a good idea of what the others are doing but does not have time to follow the developments in all other parts of the field on a day to day basis. All articles were previously published in Glot International and have been revised and updated, and special attention was given to the extensive bibliography, which constitutes an important part of each overview article. Among the essays in the first volume are overview articles dealing with VP ellipsis (by Kyle Johnson), Ergativity (by Alana Johns), tone (by San Duanmu), acquisition of phonology (by Paula Fikkert), and semantic change (by Elizabeth Closs Traugott). The second volume offers articles on subjects ranging from the development of grammars (by David Lightfoot) and markedness in phonology (by Keren Rice) to the syntactic representation of linguistic events (by Sara Thomas Rosen), optionality in Optimality syntax (by Gereon Müller) and the nature of coordination (by Ljiljana Progovac).