Deaf around the World

Introduction: Why Go around the Deaf World? Gaurav Mathur and Donna Jo Napoli Part I: Sign Languages: Creation, Ccontext, Form 1. Sign Language Geography, Carol A. Padden Response: Some Observations on Research Methodology in Lexicostatistical Studies of Sign Languages, James Woodward 2. Two Types of Nonconcatenative Morphology in Signed Languages, Gaurav Mathur and Christian Rathmann Response: Some Observations on Form-Meaning Correspondences in Two Types of Verbs in ASL, Paul Dudis 3. Sources of Handshape Error in First-Time Signers of ASL, Deborah Chen Pichler Response: Modality and Language in the Second Language Acquisition of American Sign Language, Russell S. Rosen 4. Getting to the Point: How a Simple Gesture Became a Linguistic Element in Nicaraguan Signing, Ann Senghas and Marie Coppola Response: A Point Well Taken: On the Typology and Diachrony of Pointing, Roland Pfau 5. Acquisition of Topicalization in Very Late Learners of Libras: Degrees of Resiliency in Language, Sandra K. Wood Response: A Critical Period for the Acquisition of a Theory of Mind? Clues from Homesigners, Cyril Courtin 6. Interrogatives in Ban Khor Sign Language: A Preliminary Description, Angela M. Nonaka Response: Village Sign Languages: A Commentary, Ulrike Zeshan 7. Sign Language Humor, Human Singularities, and the Origins of Language, Donna Jo Napoli and Rachel Sutton-Spence Response: Gesture First or Speech First in Language Origins? Adam Kendon

Part II: Social Issues/ Civil Rights 8. Best Practices for Collaborating with Deaf Communities in Developing Countries, Amy Wilson and Nickson Kakiri Response: Deaf Mobilization around the World: A Personal Perspective, Yerker Andersson 9. HIV/AIDS and the Deaf Community: A Conversation, Leila Monaghan and Deborah Karp Response: HIV/AIDS and Deaf Communities in South Africa: A Conversation, John Meletse and Ruth Morgan 10. The Language Politics of Japanese Sign Language (Nihon Shuwa), Karen Nakamura Response: Pluralization: An Alternative to Existing Hegemony in JSL, Soya Mori 11. Social Situations and the Education of Deaf Children in China, Jun Hui Yang Response: Social Situations and the Education of Deaf Children in India, Madan M. Vasishta 12. Do Deaf Children Eat Deaf Carrots? Paul Scott First Response: "We're the Same, I'm Deaf, You're Deaf, Huh!" Donna West Second Response: Deafhood and Deaf Educators: Some Thoughts, Paddy Ladd