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Phonetics and Phonology, Volume 3: Current Issues in ASL Phonology deals with theoretical issues in the phonology of ASL (American Sign Language), the signed language of the American Deaf. These issues range from the overall architecture of phonological theory to particular proposals such as the nature of syllables and the reality of underlying "dynamic" or "contour" elements. The seemingly universal preference, CV (consonant-vowel) as opposed to VC (vowel-consonant) syllable structure, is also discussed. Comprised of 14 chapters, this volume begins with some general background on ASL and on the community in which it is used. It then looks at secondary licensing and the nature of constraints on the non-dominant hand in ASL; underspecification in ASL handshape contours; and the nature of ASL and the development of ASL linguistics. The applicability of the notion of "phonology" to a signed language and the sort of questions that can be explored about the parallelisms between signed and spoken linguistic systems are also considered. Later chapters focus on the linearization of phonological tiers in ASL; phonological segmentation in sign and speech; two models of segmentation in ASL; and sonority and syllable structure in ASL. The book also examines phrase-level prosody in ASL before concluding with an analysis of linguistic expression and its relation to modality. This monograph will appeal to phonologists who work on both signed and spoken languages, and to other cognitive scientists interested in the nature of abstract articulatory representations in human language.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Current Issues in ASL Phonology
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- CONTRIBUTORS
- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 2. SECONDARY LICENSING AND THE NONDOMINANT HAND IN ASL PHONOLOGY
- CHAPTER 3. THE NATURE OF CONSTRAINTS ON THE NONDOMINANT HAND IN ASL
- CHAPTER 4. TO BRANCH OR NOT TO BRANCH: UNDERSPECIFICATION IN ASL HANDSHAPE CONTOURS
- CHAPTER 5. REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURE OF ASL AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASL LINGUISTICS: COMMENTS ON CORINA'S ARTICLE
- CHAPTER 6. LINEARIZATION OF PHONOLOGICAL TIERS IN ASL
- CHAPTER 7. RESPONSE TO SANDLER'S "LINEARIZATION OF PHONOLOGICAL TIERS IN ASL"
- CHAPTER 8. SYLLABLES AND SEGMENTS: HOLD THE MOVEMENT AND MOVE THE HOLDS!
- CHAPTER 9. A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON PHONOLOGICAL SEGMENTATION IN SIGN AND SPEECH
- CHAPTER 10. HOLDS AND POSITIONS: COMPARING TWO MODELS OF SEGMENTATION IN ASL
- CHAPTER 11. AGAINST MOVEMENT: COMMENTS ON LIDDELL'S ARTICLE
- CHAPTER 12. SONORITY AND SYLLABLE STRUCTURE IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
- CHAPTER 13. PHRASE-LEVEL PROSODY IN ASL: FINAL LENGTHENING AND PHRASAL CONTOURS
- CHAPTER 14. LINGUISTIC EXPRESSION AND ITS RELATION TO MODALITY
- INDEX
- PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY