Just in time for Christmas

[Karen Emmorey]

Dear List members,

I am very happy to announce that Language, Cognition, and the Brain:
Insights from Sign Language Research is now at the printers and will
be available next month.  The paperback version is $39.95 and can be
purchased on-line (with a 15% discount) at the website for Lawrence
Erlbaum and Associates (www.erlbaum.com).  The hard back is pricey
($99) and is geared toward libraries.  The Table of Contents is
listed below:

  Language, Cognition, and the Brain:
Insights from sign language research

Karen Emmorey

Preface

Notation conventions

1. Introduction
           Documenting the birth of a language:  The Nicaraguan Sign
Language Project
           The American Deaf community and sociolinguistic contexts

2. The structure of American Sign Language:  Linguistic universals
and modality effects
         The structure of signs:  morphology and the lexicon
         The phonology of a soundless language
         Syntax:  The structure of sentences
         Discourse and language use
         Conclusions and implications

3. The confluence of language and space
         Classifier constructions
         Talking about space with space
         Non-locative functions of signing space
         Conclusion

4. Psycholinguistic studies of sign perception, on-line processing,
and production
         Sign perception and visual processing
         Visual lexical access and sign recognition
         Lexical representations and organization
         On-line comprehension of signed utterances:  Psycholinguistic
studies of co-
          reference
         Some issues in sign language production

5 Sign language acquisition
         Early development
         What does that "mistake" mean?  Acquisition of syntax and morphology
         Later development
         Conclusions and implications

6 The critical period hypothesis and the effects of late language acquisition
         When language input is absent or inconsistent:  The
contribution of the child
         The effects of age of acquisition on grammatical knowledge and language
         processing in adulthood
         Delayed first language acquisition differs from second
language acquisition
         The cognitive effects of delayed first language acquisition
         The effects of late acquisition on the neural organization for language

7. Memory for sign language:  Implications for the structure of working memory
         Early evidence for sign-based memory
         Evidence for a visuo-spatial phonological loop
         Working memory capacity:  Effects on memory span for sign and speech
         Effects of the visuo-spatial modality on sign-based working memory
         A "modality effect" for sign language?  Implications for
models of working
          memory
         The architecture of working memory for sign language:  Summary and
         conclusions

8. The impact of sign language use on visuospatial cognition
         Motion processing
         Face processing
         Imagery
         Domains unaffected by sign language use
         Implications:  Does language affect cognition?

9. Sign language and the brain
         What determines left hemisphere specialization for language?
         Within hemisphere organization for sign language
         The role of the right hemisphere in language processes
         The role of subcortical structures in sign language
         Conclusions and implications

Epilogue

References

Appendix A:  List of ASL handshapes

Appendix B:  Linguistic distinctions among communication forms

Author index

Subject index
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