Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, V 2: Psychology - Hardcover

Siple

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226251519 ISBN 13: 9780226251516

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Synopsis

The recent recognition of sign languages as legitimate human languages has opened up new and unique ways for both theoretical and applied psycholinguistics and language acquisition have begun to demonstrate the universality of language acquisition, comprehension, and production processes across a wide variety of modes of communication. As a result, many language practitioners, teachers, and clinicians have begun to examine the role of sign language in the education of the deaf as well as in language intervention for atypical, language-delayed populations.

This collection, edited by Patricia Siple and Susan D. Fischer, brings together theoretically important contributions from both basic research and applied settings. The studies include native sign language acquisition; acquisition and processing of sign language through a single mode under widely varying conditions; acquisition and processing of bimodal (speech and sign) input; and the use of sign language with atypical, autistic, and mentally retarded groups.

All the chapters in this collection of state-of-the-art research address one or more issues related to universality of language processes, language plasticity, and the relative contributions of biology and input to language acquisition and use.

About this title

About the Author

Patricia Siple is associate professor of psychology and director of the linguistics program at Wayne State University. Susan D. Fischer is associate professor of communication research at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Together they have edited Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, volume 1, Linguistics.

From the Back Cover

Little more than a decade ago, when the study of sign language was in its infancy, psychological research focused on whether the processing mechanisms employed to acquire and use sign language were analogous to those for spoken language. The primary reason for these studies was to bolster the argument that sign languages like American Sign Language (ASL) were indeed languages.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226251519
• ISBN 13: 9780226251516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324