The recent recognition of sign languages as legitimate human languages has opened up new and unique ways for both theoretical and applied psycholinguistics and

In recent linguistic theory, there has been an explosion of detailed studies of language variation. This volume applies such recent analyses to the study of chi

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Only recently has linguistic research recognized sign languages as legitimate human languages with properties analogous to those cataloged for French or Navajo,

This book is perhaps the most stunning available demonstration of the explanatory power of the parametric approach to linguistic theory. It is akin, not to a de