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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Sign Language? | |
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| The Language of the Deaf Culture | |
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| Using This Book | |
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| What Is a Sign? | |
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| The Four Elements of a Sign | |
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| Which Hand to Use, Right or Left? | |
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| Shaping the Hands | |
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| The Fingerspelled Alphabet | |
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| Other ASL Handshapes | |
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| The Number Handshapes | |
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| Hand Location | |
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| Hand Movement | |
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| Palm Orientation | |
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| The Relationship Between Fingerspelling and Signing | |
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| Elements of a Rich Language | |
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| Non-manual Elements of Sign | |
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| Compound Signs | |
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| Gender of Signs | |
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| Natural and Initialized Signs | |
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| Modified Signs | |
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| Personal Differences | |
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| Regional Variations | |
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| An Evolving Language | |
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| Dictionary of ASL Signs | |
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| Concrete Nouns | |
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| Special issues: Finding the Sign You Seek; Noun/Verb Pairs; Plurals; International Signs | |
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| People | |
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| Body, Health, Sickness, and Hygiene | |
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| Work, Study, Art, and Money | |
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| Play, Leisure, and Travel | |
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| Food and Eating | |
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| Places and Furnishings | |
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| Time and Climate | |
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| Animals and Plants | |
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| Abstractions | |
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| Special issue: Handshape and Location | |
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| Feeling | |
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| Thought | |
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| Religion, Morality, and Philosophy | |
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| Action Verbs | |
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| Special issue: Modified and Directional Verb Signs | |
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| Moving and Doing | |
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| Control, Compliance, and Competition | |
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| Listing and Ordering, Beginning and Ending | |
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| Communicating and Sensing | |
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| Being, Having, Sharing, and Connecting | |
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| Describers | |
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| Special issues: The Order of Modifiers; Modifying the Modifiers; Dates and Addresses; A Special Way to Modify Numbers | |
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| Human Qualities and Sensations | |
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| Numbers, Amount, Degree, and Relation | |
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| Shape, Size, Condition, and Color | |
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| Time, Tempo, and Pace | |
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| Other Parts of Signing | |
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| Special issues: Pronouns; Prepositions; Questions | |
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| Questions and Answers | |
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| Pronouns, Indexers, and Other Stand-ins | |
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| Conjunctions and Prepositions | |
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| Etiquette | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| The Grammar of Facial Expression | |
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| Negatives | |
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| Tense | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Humor, Piquancy, and Vulgarity | |
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| Humor and Names | |
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| ABC and Number Stories | |
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| Vulgarities | |
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| Index | |