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Part 1 Bibliography

This is a list of references as used in the first course, arranged alphabetically.  You can also find the references re-arranged within individual lesson page throughout the course.  These lists are available for those who desire to pursue further on a particular topic covered in the course.

Barnard, F. A. P. (1834). Education of the deaf and dumb. North American Review, 38, 307-357.

Battison, R. (1980). Lexical borrowing in American Sign Language.  Silver Spring, MD: Linstok Press.

Bebian, R. A. A. (1825). Mimographie. Paris: Czech Louis Colas, Libraire. 

Croneberg, C.  (1965). Sign language dialects. In W. C. Stokoe, D. Casterline & C. Croneberg, A dictionary of ASL based on linguistic principles. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.

Croneberg, C. (1965). The linguistic community. In W. C. Stokoe, D. Casterline & C. Croneberg, A dictionary of ASL based on linguistic principles. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.

Edwards, T. (2014). Language Emergence in the Seattle DeafBlind Community. PhD dissertation, University of California at Berkeley.

Emmorey, K., Borinstein, H. B., Thompson, R. & Gollan, T. H. (2008). Bimodal bilingualism. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11 (1), 2008, pp 43-61.

Eriksson, P. (1993). The history of deaf people. (J. Schmale, Trans.). Orebro, Sweden: Daufr. 

Higgins, D., (1923). How to talk to the deaf. St Louis, MO: Hidding.

Hockett, C. F. (1960). The origin of speech. Scientific American230(3): 88-89.

Jackendoff, R. (1992). Languages of the mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Jackendoff, R. (2010). Meaning and the lexicon: The parallel architecture. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Klima, E., & Bellugi, U. (1979). Signs of language. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Long, J. S. (1910, 1918). The sign language. Des Moines, IA: Robert Henderson.

McCaskill, C., Lucas, C., Bayley, R. & Hill, J. (2011). The hidden treasure of black ASL: Its history and structure. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.

McCaskill, C. & William, F. (2014). Black American Sign Language. Digital Journal of Deaf Studies,  Issue #4 (Spring 2014).

Michaels, J. W. (1923). A handbook of the sign language of the deaf. Atlanta, GA: Home Mission Board Southern Baptist Convention.

Mitchell, R. E. & Kramcher, M. (2004).  Chasing the mythical ten percent: Parental hearing status of deaf and hard of hearing students in the United States. Sign Language Studies 4(2): 138–163.

Mitchell, R. E., Young, T. A., Bachleda, B. & Darchmer, M. A. (2006). How Many People Use ASL in the United States? Why Estimates Need Updating. Sign Language Studies, Volume 6, Number 3, Spring 2006, pp.306-335.

Newell, W. (1983). Basic sign communication: Vocabulary. Silver Spring, MD: National Association of the Deaf.

Padden, C. A. (2003). How the alphabet came to be used in a sign language. Sign Language Studies, 4.1. Gallaudet University Press.

Pichler, P.C., Lillo-Martin, D. & Palmer, J.D. (2018). A short introduction to heritage Signers. Sign Language Studies, 18 (3): 309-327. 

Preston, P. (1994). Mother Father Deaf: Living between Sound and Silence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Stokoe, W. C. (1960). Sign language structure: An outline of the visual communication systems of the American deaf. Studies in Linguistics, Occasional Papers 8.

Stokoe, W. C,  Casterline, D. & Croneberg, C. (1965). A dictionary of ASL based on linguistic principles. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.

Supalla, S. (1992). The book of name signs: Naming in American Sign Language. San Diego, CA: DawnSignPress.

Supalla, T. (2002)  Making historical sign language materials accessible: A prototype database of early ASL.  Sign Language and Linguistics, 4. 285-297.

Supalla, T. (2004). Validity of Gallaudet lecture films. Sign Language Studies, 4, 261-292.

Supalla, T. (2008).  Sign Language Archeology: Integrating Historical Linguistics with Fieldwork on Young Sign Languages. . In R. M. de Quadros (ed.), Sign Languages: Spinning and unraveling the past, present and future. Proceedings of the The Ninth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research.  Florianopolis, Brazil, December 2006. Petropolis, Brazil: Editora Arara Azul.

Supalla, T. (2013). The role of historical research in building a model of language typology, variation, and change.  In R. Kikusawa & L. A. Reed (eds.), Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Supalla, T. (2019). Introducing the Historical Sign Language Database, In B. Elredge, D. Stingham & B. O. Jarashow (eds.), Waypoints: Proceedings of the Sixth Binennial Deaf Studies Today! Conference, Orem, UH: Utah Valley University

Supalla, T., Amenumey, G., Bergmann, R., Denmark, C., Jokinen, M., & Schroeder, O. (1992). World Federation of the Deaf Report on Status of Sign Language. Position paper by the World Federation of the Deaf Scientific Committee on Sign Languages.

Supalla, T., & Clark, P. (2015). Sign language archaeology: Understanding the historical roots of American Sign Language. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. 

Valli, C. (1990). The nature of a line in ASL poetry. In Edmondson, W.H. & Karlsson, F. (Eds.), SLR '87: Papers from the Forth International Symposium on Sign Language Research. Hamburg: Signum-Verl.

Woodward, J. C. (1976). Black southern signing. Language in Society, 5(2), 211-218.

Woodward, J. C.  (1978). Signs of change: Historical variation in American Sign Language. Sign Language Studies, 10, 81-94.