Foreword and Acknowledgements
Part 1: Language
Introduction
1. Verbs and Adjectives: morphological processes in Swedish Sign Language
Brita Bergman
2. Marking Time in British Sign Language
Mary Brennan
3. Levels of Analysis in Sign Language Research
Betsy McDonald
4. The Semantics of British Sign Language Signs
Bencie Woll
5. Compounds in Swedish Sign Language in Historical Perspective
Lars Wallin
6. Is British Sign Language an SVO Language?
Margaret Deuchar
7. The Sign Language of the Deaf as a Colloquial System
G. Zaitseva
8. Lip Movements in Norwegian Sign Language
Marit Vogt-Svendsen
9. Multi-Channel Signs
Lilian Lawson
Part 2: Development
Introduction
10. Gestures, Signs and Words at Two Years
Virginia Volterra
11. Early Sign Language Acquisition and its Relation to Cognitive and Motor Development
John Bonvillian
12. Communication Interactions between Hearing-Impaired Infants and their Parents
Caroline Scroggs
Part 3: Community
Introduction
13. The Status of Sign Language in Education in Europe
Bernard Tervoort
14. British Sign Language and West Indian Creole
Viv Edwards and Paddy Ladd
15. The Specific Situation of the Flemish Deaf People and their Attitudes towards Sign Language
Filip Loncke
16. Manual English and American Sign Language: where do we go from here?
Gerilee Gustason
17. Sociolectal Judgements of Deaf Children
Harley Hamilton
Part 4: Psychology and Communication
Introduction
18. Looking for Meaning in Sign Language Sentences
Jim Kyle
19. Sign Meditation in a Word Recognition Task
Elisabeth Dawson
20. Sentence Repetition in American Sign Language
Rachel Mayberry, Susan Fischer and Nancy Hatfield
21. Perpetual Confusions in ASL under Normal and Reduced Conditions
Vivien Tartter and Susan Fischer
22. A Story Chain: sign language communication skills in children and adults
William Edmondson
23. Referential Communication among Scottish Deaf Pupils
I. King Jordan
24. Open Communication or Catastrophe
George Montgomery, John Miller, Gordon Mitchell, I. King Jordan and Joan Mongomery
Part 5: Overview
25. Sign Language, Linguistics and Related Arts and Sciences
William Stokoe
Biography
Jim Kyle is a renowned academic and researcher in Deaf Studies, with a distinguished career dedicated to advancing the understanding of deaf communities and sign language linguistics. He is currently secretary at the Deaf Studies Trust, UK.
Bencie Woll is Honorary Professor at University College London, Division of Psychology & Language Sciences. She has been involved in research on sign language for nearly 40 years. Her research and teaching interests embrace a wide range of topics related to sign language, including the linguistics of British Sign Language (BSL) and other sign languages, the history and sociolinguistics of BSL and the Deaf community, the development of BSL in young children, sign language and the brain, including developmental and acquired sign language impairments, and end-to-end machine translation between BSL and English.
