Description: Foreword by James J. DeCaro Introduction by Patricia Siple and Susan D. Fischer 1. Baby Face: A New Perspective on Universals in Language Acquisition Judy Snitzer Reilly, Marina L. McIntire, and Ursula Bellugi 2. Emergence of American Sign Language in a Set of Fraternal Twins Patricia Siple and C. Tane Akamatsu 3. Home Sign Systems in Deaf Children: The Development of Morphology without a Conventional Language Model Carolyn Mylander and Susan Goldin-Meadow 4. Nativization, Variability, and Style Shifting in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children of Hearing Parents James Paul Gee and Judith L. Mounty 5. Manually Coded English: The Modality Question in Signed Language Development Samuel J. Supalla 6. Conversational Interaction between Deaf Children and Their Hearing Mothers: The Role of Visual Attention M. Virginia Swisher 7. The Effects of Bimodal Communication on the Intelligibility of Sign and Speech Susan D. Fischer, Dale Evan Metz, Paula M. Brown, and Frank Caccamise 8. The Manual Representation of Speech by Deaf Children, Their Mothers, and Their Teachers Rhonda Wodlinger-Cohen 9. Bimodal Language Production Madeline Maxwell, Mark E. Bernstein, and Kimberly Matthews Mear 10. The Acquisition of Fingerspelling by Deaf Children Carol A. Padden 11. Children's Memory for Sign and Fingerspelling in Relation to Production Rate and Sign Language Input Rachel I. Mayberry and Gloria S. Waters 12. Boundary Conditions on Language Emergence: Contributions from Atypical Learners and Input Adele Abrahamsen, Maureen Lamb, Jacqueline Brown-Williams, and Susan McCarthy 13. Manual Communication and Autism: Factors Relating to Sign Language and Acquisition John D. Bonvillian and Deborah Webb Blackburn References Author Index Subject Index

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