Pinky extension and eye gaze : language use in deaf communities
This volume's ten meticulously prepared chapters reflect the refinements of research in six major sociolinguistic areas. Rob Hoopes' work, "A Preliminary Examination of Pinky Extension: Suggestions Regarding Its Occurrence, Constraints, and Function", commences Part One: Variation with a sound explanation of this American Sign Language (ASL) phonological characteristic. Part Two: Languages in Contact includes findings by Jean Ann on contact between Taiwanese Sign Language and written Taiwanese
Print Book, English, 1998
Gallaudet University Press, Washington, D.C., 1998