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59 Notes 1. Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Clayton Valli, Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language, Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, vol. 7 (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2001). 2. Clayton Valli and Ceil Lucas, The Linguistics of American Sign Language, 3d ed. (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2001); R. Battison, Lexical Borrowing in American Sign Language (Silver Spring, Md.: Linstok, 1978); William O’Grady, Michael Dobrovolsky, and Mark Aronoff, Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (New York: St. Martin’s, 1989). 3. Harlan Lane, When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf (New York: Random House, 1984); Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, and Ben Bahan, Journey into the DEAF-WORLD (San Diego: DawnSignPress, 1996); William C. Stokoe, Dorothy C. Casterline, and Carl G. Croneberg, A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet College Press, 1965). 4. Scott Liddell and Robert E. Johnson, “American Sign Language: The Phonological Base,” Sign Language Studies 64 (1989): 195–278. 5. Ibid. 6. Scott Liddell, “Indicating Verbs and Pronouns: Pointing Away from Agreement,” in The Signs of Language Revisited, ed. Karen Emmorey and Harlan Lane (Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, 2000), 303–20. 7. Carol Padden, Interaction of Morphology and Syntax in American Sign Language (New York: Garland, 1988). 8. James Woodward, “Some Observations on Sociolinguistic Variation and American Sign Language,” Kansas Journal of Sociology 9, no. 2 (1973): 191–200; Edgar H. Shroyer and Susan Shroyer, Signs across America (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1984). 9. James Woodward, “Black Southern Signing,” Language in Society 5 (1976): 211–18; James Woodward and Susan De Santis, “Two to One 60 It Happens: Dynamic Phonology in Two Sign Languages,” Sign Language Studies 17 (1977): 329–46. 10. Gregory Guy, “The Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Variation,” in American Dialect Research, ed. Dennis R. Preston (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1993), 223–49. 11. William Labov, Sociolinguistic Patterns (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972). 12. Steven Collins and Karen Petronio, “What Happens in Tactile ASL?” in Pinky Extension and Eye Gaze: Language Use in Deaf Communities, ed. Ceil Lucas, Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, vol. 4 (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1998), 18–37. Notes ...

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