Sign Language & Linguistics

Volume 11, Issue 1 (2008)

2008. 125 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.11.1

Table of Contents

Editors’ Notepad	1–2
Articles
One hand or two? Nativisation of fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSL Kearsy Cormier, Adam C. Schembri and Martha E. Tyrone	3–44
Frequency distribution and spreading behavior of different types of mouth actions in three sign languages Onno A. Crasborn, Els van der Kooij, Dafydd Waters, Bencie Woll and Johanna Mesch	45–67
Researcher’s Resources
Handshape coding made easier: A theoretically based notation for phonological transcription Petra Eccarius and Diane Brentari	69–101
Book Reviews
Review of Ann (2006): Frequency of occurrence and ease of articulation of sign language handshapes: The Taiwanese example Reviewed by Petra Eccarius	103–107
Review of Sandler & Lillo-Martin (2006): Sign language and linguistic universals Reviewed by Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach	108–111
Dissertation Abstracts
The use of prosodic markers to indicate utterance boundaries in American Sign Language interpretation: (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2007) Brenda Nicodemus	113–122
Space and iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS): (Radboud University, Nijmegen, 2007) Pamela Perniss	123–129
Eye gaze in American Sign Language: Linguistic functions for verbs and pronouns: (University of California, San Diego, 2006) Robin L. Thompson	130–135

Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Signed languages