The second international conference on sign language research, hosted by Gallaudet University, yielded critical findings in vital linguistic disciplines — phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Sign Language Research brings together in a fully synthesized volume the work of 24 of the researchers invited to this important gathering. Scholars from Belgium to India, from Finland to Uganda, and from Japan to the United States, exchanged the latest developments in sign language research worldwide. Now, the results of their findings are in this comprehensive volume complete with illustrations and photographs.

Ceil Lucas is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Gallaudet University.

• Contents 
• Introduction
• Contributors
• An Historical Perspective on Sign Language Research: A Personal View
• Stokoe, William C.
• Part One: 
• Phonology
• A Structured-Tiers Model for ASL Phonology
• Ahn, Sung-Ho
• Handshape Assimilations in Hierarchical Phonological Representation
• Corina, David P.
• The Regularity Hypothesis Applied to ASL
• Moser, Margaret G.
• Licensing in ASL Handshape Change
• Brentari, Diane
• Part Two: 
• Morphology
• The Morphology of Classifier Handshapes in Italian Sign Language (LIS)
• Corazza, Serena
• Manual and Nonmanual Morphology in Italian Sign Language: Grammatical Constraints and Discourse Processes
• Pizzuto, Elena
• Giuranna, Enza
• Gambino, Giuseppe
• Spatial-Locative Predicates in Thai Sign Language
• Collins-Ahlgren, Marianne
• The Relation Between Space and Grammar in ASL Verb Morphology
• Padden, Carol A.
• Polymorphemic Predicates in Swedish Sign Language
• Wallin, Lars
• Predicate Argument Structure and Verb-Class Organization in the ASL Lexicon
• Kegl, Judy
• Four Functions of a Locus: Reexamining the Structure of Space in ASL
• Liddell, Scott K.
• Part Three: 
• Syntax
• A Class of Determiners in ASL
• Zimmer, June
• Patschke, Cynthia
• Parameters for Questions: Evidence from wh-Movement in ASL
• Lillo-Martin, Diane
• ASL Relative Clauses and Their Interaction with Null Categories
• Miller, Dana
• Is ASL like Diegueño or Diegueño like ASL? A Study of Internally Headed Relative Clauses in ASL
• Fontana, Josep M.
• Part Four: 
• Sociolinguistics
• The Emerging Deaf Community in the Dominican Republic: An Ethnographic Study
• de Garcia, Barbara Gerner
• Dialectal Flexibility in Sign Language in Africa
• Serpell, Robert
• Mbewe, Mackenzie
• ASL, English, and Contact Signing
• Lucas, Ceil
• Valli, Clayton
• Linguistic Transference and Interference: Interpreting Between English and ASL
• Davis, Jeffrey
• Part Five: 
• Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics
• Types of Instructional Input as Predictors of Reading Achievement for Hearing-Impaired Students
• Luetke-Stahlman, Barbara
• Lexical Acquisition in Sign and Speech: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Infants in Deaf Families
• Ackerman, Jennifer
• Kyle, Jim
• Woll, Bencie
• Ezra, Mark
• A Psycholinguistic Approach to Categorizing Handshapes in American Sign Language: Is [As] an Allophone of /A/?
• Moy, Anthony
• The Effects of Morphosyntactic Structure on the Acquisition of Classifier Predicates in ASL
• Schick, Brenda S.
• Index