The Authors

Su!=er 1985 Mark E. Bernstein is an Assistant Professor in the Depart-ment of Speech Communication at the Universitv of Texas at Austin. After teachin-a deaf children in New York Cit- he attended Boston University, earning an Ed.D. in Applied Psvcholinguistics. He has worked with the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf and with the Dallas Independent School District on aLclications of recent research to curriculu- and instructional methods, focusing on ele-entary level classes. -is research interests include the structure of natural language categories and studies of lexical acquisition in children. He has curlished in the Journal of Child Language, Applied Psycholinguistics, and the American Annals of the Deaf. Carol Erting is a member of the Gallaudet Research Institute and Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at Gallaudet College, where she teaches courses in language and culture. After directing and teaching in a program for parents and deaf infants in Atlanta, she earned a Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology at the American University in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include conmunication in deaf child-mother dvads, ethnographv, and sociolincuistic aspects of communication in the education of the deaf. She has published so-e of her findings in Sign Language and the Deaf Comunity: Essays in Honor of William C. Stokoe and in Sign Language Studies. Barbara Le Master is a doctoral student in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently in Ireland doing field work on sign language variation. Kimberly Ann Matthews is completing a aster's degree in speech and communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Her thesis involves comparing hearing elementary teachers' simultaneous connunication in instructional and informal contexts. She is currently teaching deaf secondary students at the Horace Mann School in Boston. Summer 1985 Carol Padden is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where she earned the Ph.D. in linguistics. Her research interests include the syntactic and phonological structure of American Sign Language and the culture of the American Deaf population. She is a frequent lecturer on both topics. Her papers have appeared in Sign Language Studies and in the Quarterly Newsletter for the Laboratory on Comparative Human Cognition. Her book on Deaf culture is to be published soon by Harvard University Press. Susan Rutherford is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Instructor in the ASL/Interpreter Training Program at Vista College. She is the Executive Director of D.E.A.F. Media, Inc., producers of TV programs "Rainbow's End," "Celebration: Deaf Artists & Performers." She was project director for the three year National Endowment for the Humanities Project "American Culture: The Deaf Perspective" produced by the San Francisco Public Library. She has a Master's degree in Folklore from UC Berkeley and is completing a Ph.D. in Deaf Studies there. Her principal fields of study include folklore, sociology of minority groups, and linguistics. SLS 47 ...