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Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Editors' acknowledgments -- Notational conventions -- Abbreviations of non-manual markers -- Sign language acronyms -- 1 Sign language phonology: Theoretical perspectives -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Basic units and constraints -- 1.2.1 Handshape -- 1.2.2 Orientation -- 1.2.3 Location -- 1.2.4 Movement types -- 1.2.5 Two-handed signs -- 1.3 Signs as single segments -- 1.4 What about syllable structure? -- 1.5 Rules -- 1.5.1 Grammatical phonology and utterance phonology -- 1.5.2 Why do sign languages lack a grammatical phonology? -- 1.6 Iconicity -- 1.6.1 Discrete iconicity and gradual iconicity -- 1.6.2 Gradual iconicity -- 1.6.3 Incidental discrete iconicity -- 1.6.4 Recurrent discrete iconicity -- 1.7 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 2 Phonological comprehension: Experimental perspectives -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Perceptual sign language characteristics -- 2.3 Categorical perception -- 2.4 Linguistic experience -- 2.5 Acquisition perspectives -- 2.6 Coarticulatory effects -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Lexical processing in comprehension and production: Experimental perspectives -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Deafness, plasticity, and the language network -- 3.3 Sign processing -- 3.3.1 Signs vs. body movements and gestures -- 3.3.2 A few notes about lexical access in comprehension and production -- 3.3.3 Lexicality, lexical frequency, and semantic effects in sign comprehension -- 3.3.4 Sign production -- 3.3.5 Iconicity: the link between meaning and form -- 3.4 Processing of lexical signs: sublexical units -- 3.4.1 Comprehension -- 3.4.2 Production -- 3.5 Cross-linguistic influences on sign language processing: bimodal bilingualism -- 3.6 Conclusion.