second TILAR volume

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,
  John Benjamins has now released the second volume of the TILAR  series,
sponsored by the International Association for the Study of Child Language
(IASCL) with Steven Gillis and Annick DeHouwer as series editors.  This
volume will be available to IASCL members at a highly reduced price and will
be available at the upcoming IASCL meeting in Madison.  The announcement
follows.

--Brian MacWhinney

NEW PUBLICATION FROM JOHN BENJAMINS

Directions in Sign Language Acquisition

Edited by Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll
City University London

As the first book of its kind, this volume with contributions from many well
known scholars brings together some of the most recent original work on sign
language acquisition in children learning a variety of different signed
languages (i.e., Brazilian Sign Language, American SL, SL of the
Netherlands, British SL, SL of Nicaragua, and Italian SL). In addition, the
volume addresses methodological and theoretical issues in both sign language
research and child language development in general. The book includes both
overview chapters addressing matters of general concern in the study of sign
language acquisition and chapters related to more specific topics such as
sign language phonology, complex sentence structure and verb phrase
development. This book will be of interest to sign language researchers,
child language specialists and communication disorders professionals alike.
The material is presented in such a way that also novices to the area of
sign language study will find the text accessible.

Table of Contents
Preface

Introduction
Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll

Foundations of communication and the emergence of language in deaf children
Marc Marschark

Phonology acquisition in Brazilian Sign Language
Lodenir Becker Karnopp

Transcription as a tool for understanding:The BerkeleyTranscription System
for sign language research(BTS)
Nini Hoiting and Dan I.Slobin

The development of Italian Sign Language (LIS)in deaf preschoolers
Elena Pizzuto

The acquisition of verb agreement:Pointing out arguments for the linguistic
status of agreement in signed languages
Richard P.Meier

The expression of grammatical relations by deaf toddlers learning ASL
Brenda Schick

FACES:The acquisition of non-manual morphology in ASL
Judy Reilly and Diane Anderson

Are young deaf children bilingual?
Beppie van den Bogaerde and Anne E.Baker

Language emergence in a language-ready brain:Acquisition
Judy Kegl

The development of complex sentences in British Sign Language
Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll

Afterword:A view from researchon spoken language development
Elena V.M.Lieven

Conclusions and directions for future research
Bencie Woll and Gary Morgan

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 2
2002. Hb xx, 339 pp. 90 272 3472 8 EUR 60.00
2002. Hb xx, 339 pp. 1 58811 235 7 USD 55.00

FOR IASCL MEMBERS SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICE: USD 25.00
Visit the John Benjamins stand at the IASCL/SRCLD conference in Madison,
16-22 July 2002 to buy your copy of Directions in Sign Language Acquisition
(TiLAR 2) and Trends in Bilingual Acquisition (TiLAR 1), ed. by Jasone Cenoz
and Fred Gensee.

The Trends in Language Acquisition Research series (TiLAR) is an official
publication of the International Association for the Study of Child Language
(IASCL). Series Editors of TilAR are Annick De Houwer (University of
Antwerp/UIA) and Steven Gillis (University of Antwerp/UIA).

For more information contact the publisher:

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