附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preface; Notation Conventions; 1 Introduction; 2 The Structure of American Sign Language: Linguistic Universals and Modality Effects; 3 The Confluence of Language and Space; 4 Psycholinguistic Studies of Sign Perception, Online Processing, and Production; 5 Sign Language Acquisition; 6 The Critical Period Hypothesis and the Effects of Late Language Acquisition; 7 Memory for Sign Language: Implications for the Structure of Working Memory; 8 The Impact of Sign Language Use on Visuospatial Cognition; 9 Sign Language and the Brain; Epilogue.
摘要:Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human language and language processing, the relations between cognition and language, and the neural organization for language.
