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SIGN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS, Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2007

Timothy Reagan
Timothy Reagan
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Central Connecticut State University
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SIGN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS.Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi + 547. $45.00 paper.

Sandler and Lillo-Martin's volume is an incredibly important, powerful, and timely work. That the sign languages used by deaf people around the world are real human languages in every meaningful sense of the term has become a given among linguists over the past 30 years; as Sandler and Lillo-Martin point out, “In sum, the way sign language is acquired and the ease and speed of its transmission strongly support the view that a single cognitive system underlies language in both [spoken and signed] modalities” (pp. 3−4). Furthermore, apart from the psycholinguistic perspective, it is clear that

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 2007 , pp. 624 - 625
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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