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What's your sign for pizza? : an introduction to variation in American Sign Language / Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Clayton Valli.

Title
  1. What's your sign for pizza? : an introduction to variation in American Sign Language / Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Clayton Valli.
Published by
  1. Washington, D.C : Gallaudet University Press, 2003.
Author
  1. Lucas, Ceil

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Additional authors
  1. Bayley, Robert, 1943-
  2. Valli, Clayton
Description
  1. ix, 189 p. : ill.; 24 cm. +
Summary
  1. "What's Your Sign for Pizza derives from an extensive seven-year research project in which more than 200 Deaf ASL users representing different age, gender, and ethnic groups from seven different regions were videotaped sharing their signs for everyday vocabulary. This useful text and its accompanying CD begins with an explanation of the basic concepts of language and the structure of sign language, since sign variation abides by the rules governing all human languages. Each part of the text concludes with questions for discussion, and the final section offers three supplemental readings that provide further information on variation in both spoken and signed languages. What's Your Sign for Pizza also briefly sketches the development of ASL, which explains the relationships between language varieties throughout the country."--Jacket.
Uniform title
  1. Project Muse UPCC books
Alternative title
  1. Variation in American Sign Language
Subject
  1. American Sign Language
Genre/Form
  1. CD-ROMs.
Contents
  1. Some basic concepts about language -- Signs have parts -- Variation: basic concepts -- Phonological variation -- Syntactic variation -- Lexical variation -- Collecting variable data -- Summary and conclusions -- Notes -- Supplementary readings. The importance of variation research for deaf communities ; Lexical variation in African American and white signing ; Sociolinguistic variation -- Index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
System details (note)
  1. System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: IBM-PC or equivalent; 64 MB RAM; Pentium 2 processor or equivalent; Windows 95 or higher; CD-ROM drive; Sound card: Mac; 64 MB RAM; OS 8.6; CD-ROM drive; Sound card.
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