Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research </em>bridges the divide between theoretical and experimental approaches to provide an up-to-date survey of key topics in sign language research. With 29 chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from around the world, this <em>Handbook</em> covers the following key areas:</p><ul> <li>On the theoretical side, all crucial aspects of sign language grammar studied within formal frameworks such as Generative Grammar</li> <li>On the experimental side, theoretical accounts are supplemented by experimental evidence gained in psycho- and neurolinguistic studies</li> <li>On the descriptive side, the main phenomena addressed in the reviewed scholarship are summarized in a way that is accessible to readers without previous knowledge of sign languages</li> </ul><p>Each chapter features an introduction, an overview of existing research, and a critical assessment of hypotheses and findings. <i>The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research </i>is key reading for all advanced students and researchers working at the intersection of sign language research, linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics.</p><p>Chapters 5, 18 and 19 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.</p> <p>Chapter 1 Harry van der Hulst & Els van der Kooij: Sign language phonology – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 2 Uta Benner: Phonological comprehension – experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 3 Eva Gutierrez-Sigut & Cristina Baus: Lexical processing in comprehension and production – experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 4 Jordan Fenlon & Diane Brentari: Prosody – theoretical and experimental perspectives</p><p>Chapter 5 Josep Quer: Verb agreement – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 6 Jana Hosemann: Verb agreement – experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 7 Gladys Tang, Jia Li, & Jia He: Classifiers – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 8 Inge Zwitserlood: Classifiers – experimental perspectives</p><p>Chapter 9 Evie A. Malaia & Marina Milković: Aspect – theoretical and experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 10 Natasha Abner: Determiner phrases – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 11 Meltem Kelepir: Content interrogatives – theoretical and experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 12 Kadir Gökgöz: Negation – theoretical and experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 13 Carlo Cecchetto: Null arguments and ellipsis – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 14 Diane Lillo-Martin: Null arguments – experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 15 Chiara Branchini: Relative clauses – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 16 Markus Steinbach: Role shift – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 17 Pamela Perniss: Use of sign space – experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 18 Gemma Barberà: Specificity and definiteness – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 19 Vadim Kimmelman & Josep Quer: Quantification – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 20 Kathryn Davidson: Implicatures – theoretical and experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 21 Jeremy Kuhn: Discourse anaphora – theoretical and experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 22 Elisabeth Volk & Annika Herrmann: Discourse particles – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 23 Philippe Schlenker: Logical visibility and iconicity in sign language semantics – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 24 Ronnie B. Wilbur: Non-manual markers – theoretical and experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 25 Bencie Woll & Dave Vinson: Gesture and sign – theoretical and experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 26 Vadim Kimmelman & Roland Pfau: Information structure – theoretical perspectives </p><p>Chapter 27 Caterina Donati: Bimodal bilingual grammars – theoretical and experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 28 Annemarie Kocab & Ann Senghas: Language emergence – theoretical and experimental perspectives </p><p>Chapter 29 Marcel R. Giezen: Working memory in signers – experimental perspectives</p>