new book available

[Karen Emmorey]

Dear list,

I am very happy to announce the publication of  The Signs of Language
Revisited:  An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima.
Here is the table of contents:


THE SIGNS OF LANGUAGE REVISITED
An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima

Harlan Lane and Karen Emmorey (Editors)


Preface

I  Reminiscences

Two memorable meals with Ursula and Ed
Lou Fant

American Sign Language linguistics 1970-1980:  Memoir of a renaissance
Robbin M. Battison

A fish story for Ursula and other remembrances
Bernard Bragg


II  Historical and comparative analyses of sign languages

Sign languages and sign language families in Thailand and Viet Nam
James Woodward

Lexical comparisons of signs from American, Australian British and
New Zealand Sign Languages
David McKee and Graeme Kennedy

Origins of the American Deaf-World:  Assimilating and differentiating
societies and their relation to genetic patterning
Harlan Lane , Richard C. Pillard, and Mary French


III  Language in the visual-spatial modality

Sign language research at the millennium
Elissa L. Newport and Ted Supalla

Attentional resources and working memory: A new framework for the
study of the impact of deafness on cognition
Patricia Siple

When does modality matter?  Evidence from ASL on the
nature of working memory
Margaret Wilson and Karen Emmorey

A pilot study of the expressive gestures used by classical orchestra conductors
Penny Boyes Braem and Thuering Braem

An interpreter creates the space
Nancy Frishberg


IV Linguistic analysis of sign languages

More than just handwaving:  The mutual contributions of sign language
and linguistics
Susan D. Fischer

Phonological and prosodic layering of nonmanuals in American Sign Language
Ronnie B. Wilbur

A two-handed manual alphabet in the United States
Ruth C. Loew, C. Tane Akamatsu, and Mary Lanaville

Iconicity and transparency in sign languages:  A cross-linguistic
cross-cultural view
Elena Pizzuto and Virginia Volterra

Codeswitching as a linguistic phenomenon in language contact between
ASL and written English
Marlon Kuntze

Indicating verbs and pronouns:  Pointing away from agreement
Scott K. Liddell


V  Language acquisition

Viewing Deaf children in a new way:  Implications of Bellugi and
Klima's research for education
Jeffrey G. Bettger

Shared motoric factors in the acquisition of sign and speech
Richard P. Meier

Explorations of enhanced gestural input to children in the bimodal period
Adele Abrahamsen

Early and late in language acquisition:  Aspects of the syntax and
acquisition of Wh-questions in American Sign Language
Diane Lillo-Martin

Bringing affective expression into the service of language: Acquiring
perspective marking in narratives
Judy Reilly

Search for the missing link:  The development of skilled reading in
Deaf children
Carol A. Padden and Vicki L. Hanson

On the biological foundations of human language
Laura Ann Petitto


VI The neural organization of sign language

Language and the brain
Antonio R. Damasio and Hanna Damasio

Some observations on paraphasia in American Sign Language
David P. Corina

The structure of language as motor behavior:  Clues from signers with
Parkinson's disease
Howard Poizner, Diane Brentari, Martha E. Tyrone, and Judy Kegl

On the uniqueness of language
Victoria A. Fromkin



The book is published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA) and can
now be purchased for a pre-paid price of $59.95 (the list price is
$120, and Amazon.com is charging $106).  To get the discount price,
you must order directly from LEA:  1-800-9-BOOKS-9 or by fax at
201-760-3735.   A prepaid order means payment for the book at the
time of the order with either a check or credit card.   The book
should be available (i.e., on bookshelves and able to ship) next
month.  Since the members of this list are likely to be interested in
this book, I wanted to let you know how to get the discount price
(which I thought wasn't bad for a 500 pg book).

Karen

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Karen Emmorey, Ph.D.
Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
10010 North Torrey Pines Rd.
La Jolla, CA  92037

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Tel: (858) 453 - 4100, ext. 1417
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Email:  emmorey at axp1.salk.edu
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