Language, Gesture, and Space: 4th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research : Papers

465 Pages·1995·285.711 MB·

by  Emmorey

LANGUAGE,
GESTURE,
AND SPACE
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LANGUAGE,
GESTURE,
AND SPACE
Edited by
KAREN EMMOREY
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
JUDY S. REILLY
San Diego State University
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1995 Hillsdale, New Jersey Have, UK
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Language. gesture. and space / edited by Karen Emmorey. Judy S.
Reilly.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Partial Contents: PI. I. Space in language and gesture. - pI.
2. Point of view and referential shift - pI. 3. Morpho-syntax of
verbs in ASL - pI. 4. Gestural systems and sign language - pI.
5. Language acquisition and gesture.
ISBN 0-8058-1378-0
I. Sign language. 2. Gesture. 3. Language acquisition. 4. Space
and time in language. I. Emmorey. Karen. II. Reilly. Judy
Snitzer. 1946-
PII7.L364 1995
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Contents
Contributors ix
1 Theoretical Issues Relating Language, Gesture, and
Space: An Overview 1
Karen Emmorey and Judy S. Reilly
PART I: SPACE IN LANGUAGE AND GESnJRE
2 Real, Surrogate, and Token Space: Grammatical
Consequences in ASL 19
Scott K. Liddell
3 Differential Processing of Topographic and Referential
Functions of Space 43
Karen Emmorey, David Carina, and Ursula Bellugi
4 Right Brain and Gesture 63
David McNeill and Laura L. Pede/ty
5 Spatial Mapping in Comparative Discourse Frames 87
Elizabeth A. Winston
PART D: POINT OF VIEW AND REFERENTIAL SIllFT
6 On Narrative Discourse and Point of View in
Quebec Sign Language 117
Christine Poulin and Christopher Miller
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7 Point of View Expressed Through Shifters 133
Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
8 The Point of View Predicate in American Sign Language 155
Diane Lillo-Martin
9 Line Segmentation and Narrative Structure:
A Study of Eyegaze Behavior in American Sign Language 171
Benjamin j. Bahan and Samuel j. Supalla
PART ill: MORPHO-SYNTAX OF VERBS IN ASL
10 A Crosslinguistic Perspective on ASL Verb Agreement 195
Wynne D. janis
11 Lexical Tense Markers in American Sign Language 225
Debra Aarons, Benjamin j. Bahan, judy Kegl,
and Carol Neidle
12 Morpho-Syntactic Structure of Aspect and
Number Inflections in ASL 255
Donald S. Metlay and Ted Supalla
PART IV: GESTIJRAL SYSlEMS AND SIGN lANGUAGE
13 The Cataclysmic Break Between Gesticulation and Sign:
Evidence Against a Unified Continuum of
Gestural Communication 287
Jenny L. Singleton, Susan Goldin-Meadow,
and David McNeill
14 The Genesis of Language: How Much Time Is
Needed to Generate Arbitrary Symbols in a Sign System? 313
jill P. Morford, jenny L. Singleton,
and Susan Goldin-Meadow
15 The Grammar of International Sign:
A New Look at Pidgin Languages 333
Ted Supalla and Rebecca Webb
PART V: lANGUAGE ACQUISmON AND GESTURE
16 Mental Phonology and Language Comprehension,
or What Does That Sign Mistake Mean? 355
Rachel 1. Maybe.ny
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CONTENTS vii
17 When Do Modality Factors Affect the Course
of Language Acquisition? 371
Virginia Volterra and Jana M. Iverson
18 Prelinguistic Gesture in Deaf and Hearing Infants 391
Richard P. Meier and Raquel Willerman
19 The Resilience of Language: Mother-Child Interaction
and Its Effect on the Gesture Systems of Chinese
and American Deaf Children 411
Xiao-Iei Wang, Carolyn Mylander,
and Susan Goldin-Meadow
Author Index 435
Subject Index 443
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Contributors
DEBRA AARONS Program in Applied Linguistics, Boston University
BENJAMIN J. BAHAN Program in Deaf Studies, School of Education, Boston
University
URSUIA BEUUGI Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, The Salk Institute
for Biological Studies
DAVID CORINA Department of Psychology, University of Washington
KAREN EMMOREY Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, The Salk Institute
for Biological Studies
EUSABETH ENGBERG-PEDERSEN Department of General and Applied
Linguistics, University of Copenhagen
SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW Department of Psychology, The University of
Chicago
JANA M. IVERSON Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago
WYNNE D. JANIS Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences, Purdue
University
JUDY KEGL Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers
University
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