Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language

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227 Index Aarons, D., et al., 160 AAVE. See African American Vernacular English Addition, 27, 28 Adolescent signers. See Age differences among signers Adverb placement, 27–28 Affixes, 149–50 African Americans “Black ASL,” 19, 156 language change and middle-class African Americans, 139–40 lexical variants and, 186 location of know and like verb signs, 135–36 Missouri School for the Deaf students, 69 noncitation variants of location signs and, 138, 155 1 handshape variation and, 104 research on signing of, 18–19 study participants, 32, 36–37, 40 vs. Caucasian signing, 1, 10, 12, 19, 104, 176, 186 vs. Caucasian speaking, 24 African American Vernacular English (AAVE), 2, 23, 46–47 africa sign, 177–78, 180, 187, 188, 190, 191, 196 Age differences among signers alternation of fingerspelling and lexical signs, 17 citation form use, 153–54 language change and, 138–39 lexical variation, 185–86, 188–90 location of deaf sign, 115, 117–18, 121–22, 152–54 location of know and like verb signs, 132, 134, 136, 154–55 location variable and, 136–38 null pronoun variation, 169, 172–73 1 handshape variation, 89-90, 94, 101, 102, 103, 104-05, 106, 111 study participants to represent, 32, 35 Agent-beneficiary directionality, 13, 20, 26 American Athletic Association of the Deaf, 80 American School for the Deaf (ASD), 53–56 influence of, 54, 61–62, 79 origins of, 52 perspective on use of signs, 54–56 American Sign Language (ASL) acceptance of, via residential schools, 62–64, 185 aspect marking in, 149–50 “Black ASL,” 156 culture of deaf people who share, 5–6 English language’s influence on, 167–68, 170 phonological variation in. See Phonological variation in ASL 2714 GUP SVA Chapter Index 6/14/01 9:29 AM Page 227 American Sign Language (continued) pro-drop language, 3, 26, 42, 168 recognition of as full-fledged language, 1, 35, 143, 194 research on variation in, 7–21. See also Variation in ASL segments that compose, 81–84 socioeconomic status and variation of users, 6 sociolinguistic variation research, 5–6, 8–21. See also Variation in ASL speech community of users, 107–10 structure of, 1, 19–21 Analogy, 27, 28 Animal signs, 184, 187–88, 191 Anonymity of study participants. See Observer’s Paradox Aramburo, A., 18, 32, 136, 140 arrest sign, 182–84, 196 Articulation. See Oralism Assimilation, 27, 28, 134, 138, 146, 176, 192 Back channeling, 18 Bahan, B., 160 Bailey, G., et al., 140 banana sign, 178, 180, 197 Barale, C., 151 Battison, R.M., H. Markowicz, and J.C. Woodward, 11, 28 Baugh, J., 46–47, 48 Bayley, R., 44, 47, 48, 90 Bayley, R., and L. Pease-Alvarez, 163, 174 Baynton, D.C., 58 Beebe, L.M., and H. Giles, 40 Bell, Alexander Graham, 61 Beverly School, 61 Biber, D., and E. Finegan, 24 Black signing. See African Americans Blattberg, S., et al., 17 Boundary phenomenon, 29, 149 Bound morphemes, 149 Bourgerie, D.S., 151 Bowles, Theodore C., 76 Braddock, G.C., 64 Braidwood, Thomas, 53 Brelje, H.W., and V. Tibbs, 64 Bridges, B., 15 Brill, Richard G., 60–61 Brown, James S., 57–58, 70 Caldwell, William A., 74 California School for the Deaf, Berkeley history of, 58–59 language policies and attitudes at, 72–75 California School for the Deaf at Riverside, 60–61 Cameron, R., 162 Cedergren, H., 4 Chamberlayne, Lewis W., 57 Chinese language, 150–51, 160, 175 Citation form of signs age differences among signers using, 153–54 content signs, 137–38 deaf sign, 115, 116–18, 145–46, 152–53 know and like verb signs, 132–33 1 handshape signs, 16, 91, 144, 152 pronouns and, 144–45 Clark, Pomeroy B., 59 Clarke School, 58, 61 Class differences in signing, 6, 10, 15, 156 deaf sign, 153, 156 lexical variation, 187 location of know and like verb signs, 135 location variable and, 138 1 handshape variation, 104–5, 111 study participants to represent, 36–37 Classifier predicates, 158 Clerc, Laurent, 52, 54, 55, 62 Coalescence, 22, 26 Codeswitching, 19, 40 228 : I n d e x 2714 GUP SVA Chapter Index 6/14/01 9:29 AM Page 228 Index : 229 Cogswell, Alice, 53 Cogswell, Mason F., 53, 54 Collins, S., and K. Petronio, 15, 18 Compositional constraints, 23 Compositional features of signs, 11, 19 Compounding process and location of signs, 126 Comstock, George, 62 Connecticut Asylum for the...