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Linguistics

Interaction of Tone with Voicing and Foot Structure Evidence from Kera Phonetics and Phonology

Pearce Mary D.

ISBN: PB: 9781575866086, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm

This book investigates the topics of tone, vowel harmony, and metrical structure, with special reference to Kera, a Chadic language spoken in Chad and Cameroon. Kera is a tone language where a change in the pitch of the word can make a difference to...

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Linguistics

Literary Criticism

Prague English Studies and the Transformation of Philologies

Prochazka Martin, Pilny Ondrej

ISBN: PB: 9788024621562, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2013
140 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collaborative monograph will commemorate the centenary of the Prague English Studies, officially inaugurated in 1912 by the appointment of Vilem Mathesius. Apart from reassessing the...

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Sign Language

Literary Criticism

Deaf American Literature From Carnival to the Canon

Peters Cynthia

ISBN: PB: 9781563685774, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this classic bestseller, first published in 2000, Cynthia Peters uses the archetypal concept of the carnival as a framework to interpret the evolution of ASL literature. The Deaf literary canon, much like the carnival itself, represents the "count...

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Reference

Dictionaries

University of Chicago Spanish-English Dictionary Sixth Edition: Diccionario Universidad de Chicago Ingles-Espanol, Sexta Edicion

Pharies David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226666969, ISBN: HB: 9780226666952, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
626 pp., 21.6x14 cm

For more than sixty years, "The University of Chicago Spanish-English Dictionary" has set the standard for concise bilingual dictionaries. Now thoroughly revised to reflect the most current vocabulary and usage in both languages, this dictionary enab...

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Linguistics

Reference and Reflexivity Second Edition

Perry John

ISBN: PB: 9781575865249, ISBN: HB: 9781575865232, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
275 pp., 22x14 cm

In this volume John Perry develops his "reflexive-referential" account of indexicals, demonstratives, and proper names. For this new second edition, Perry has added a new preface and two chapters on the distinction between semantics and pragmatics an...

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Sign Language

Literary Criticism

Deaf Epistemologies Multiple Perspectives on the Acquisition of Knowledge

Paul Peter V., Moores Donald F.

ISBN: HB: 9781563685255, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table

Epistemology is the study of how "knowledge" is formed. Standard epistemology isolates the "known" from the "knowers", thereby defining "knowledge" as objectively constant. Multiple epistemologies suggest that individuals learn in different ways shap...

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German

Kunterbunt Und Kurz Geschrieben An Interactive German Reader for the Intermediate German Classroom

Pfrehm James

ISBN: PB: 9780300166026, Yale University Press, January 2012
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 18 black&white illus.

"Kunterbunt Und Kurz Geschrieben" is an intermediate-level German reader that can be used as either the main text in a conversation course or a supplementary text in an intermediate grammar review course. James Pfrehm's innovative approach includes t...

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Sign Language

Public Health

Cochlear Implants Evolving Perspectives

Paludneviciene Raylene, Leigh Irene W.

ISBN: HB: 9781563685033, Gallaudet University Press, September 2011
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 6 tables, 2 figures

The cochlear implant debate has changed, as evidenced in this cogent collection that presents 13 chapters by 20 experts, including several who communicate through sign language but also utilize cochlear implants. The impetus for this change stems fro...

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Sign Language

Education

Spanish National Deaf School Portraits from the Nineteenth Century

Plann Susan

ISBN: HB: 9781563683558, Gallaudet University Press, November 2007
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table, 20 photos

In nineteenth-century Spain, the education of deaf students took shape through various contradictory philosophies and practices. Susan Plann depicts this ambivalence by profiling a select group of teachers and students in her detailed history "The Sp...

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Sign Language

Law

New Civil Right Telecommunications Equality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans

Peltz Strauss Karen

ISBN: HB: 9781563682919, Gallaudet University Press, July 2006
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

When three deaf men in the 1960s invented and sold TTYs, the first teletypewriting devices that allowed deaf people to communicate by telephone, they started a telecommunications revolution for deaf people throughout America. "A New Civil Right: Tele...

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