What's Your Sign for Pizza?: An Introduction to Variation in American Sign Language

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vii Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 1. Some Basic Concepts about Language 3 2. Signs Have Parts 12 3. Variation: Basic Concepts 17 4. Phonological Variation 23 5. Syntactic Variation 41 6. Lexical Variation 46 7. Collecting Variable Data 54 8. Summary and Conclusions 57 Notes 59 Supplementary Readings 61 The Importance of Variation Research for 63 Deaf Communities Ceil Lucas and Robert Bayley Lexical Variation in African American and 83 White Signing Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, Ruth Reed, and Alyssa Wulf Sociolinguistic Variation 111 Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, Clayton Valli, Mary Rose, and Alyssa Wulf Index 181 ...