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| Preface | |
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| Notation Conventions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Documenting the Birth of a Language: The Nicaraguan Sign Language Project | |
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| The American Deaf Community and Sociolinguistic Context | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Structure of American Sign Language: Linguistic Universals and Modality Effects | |
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| The Structure of Signs: Morphology and the Lexicon | |
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| The Phonology of a Soundless Language | |
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| Syntax: The Structure of Sentences | |
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| Discourse and Language Use | |
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| Conclusions and Implications | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Confluence of Language and Space | |
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| Classifier Constructions | |
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| Talking About Space With Space | |
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| Nonlocative Functions of Signing Space | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Psycholinguistic Studies of Sign Perception, Online Processing, and Production | |
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| Sign Perception and Visual Processing | |
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| Lexical Access and Sign Recognition | |
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| Lexical Representations and Organization | |
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| Online Comprehension of Signed Utterances: Psycholinguistic Studies of Coreference | |
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| Some Issues in Sign Language Production | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Sign Language Acquisition | |
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| Early Development | |
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| What Does That "Mistake" Mean? Acquisition of Syntax and Morphology | |
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| Later Development | |
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| Conclusions and Implications | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Critical Period Hypothesis and the Effects of Late Language Acquisition | |
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| When Language Input Is Absent or Inconsistent: The Contribution of the Child | |
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| The Effects of Age of Acquisition on Grammatical Knowledge and Language Processing | |
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| Delayed First Language Acquisition Differs From Second Language Acquisition | |
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| The Cognitive Effects of Delayed First Language Acquisition | |
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| The Effects of Late Acquisition on the Neural Organization of Language | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Memory for Sign Language: Implications for the Structure of Working Memory | |
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| Early Evidence for Sign-Based Working Memory | |
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| Evidence for a Visuospatial Phonological Loop | |
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| Working Memory Capacity: Effects on Memory Span for Sign and Speech | |
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| Effects of the Visuospatial Modality on Sign-Based Working Memory | |
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| A Modality Effect for Sign Language? Implications for Models of Working Memory | |
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| The Architecture of Working Memory for Sign Language: Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Impact of Sign Language Use on Visuospatial Cognition | |
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| Motion Processing | |
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| Face Processing | |
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| Mental Imagery | |
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| Domains Unaffected by Sign Language Use | |
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| Implications: Does Language Affect Cognition? | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Sign Language and the Brain | |
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| What Determines the Left-Hemispheric Specialization for Language? | |
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| Within Hemisphere Organization of Sign Language | |
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| The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Language Processes | |
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| The Role of Subcortical Structures in Sign Language | |
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| Conclusions and Implications | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Handshapes in American Sign Language | |
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| Linguistic Distinctions Among Communication Forms in Nicaragua | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |