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This research was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grants #HD 13249, NS15175, NS19096, and by National Science Foundation Grant #BNS83-09860 to Drs. Ursula Bellugi and Howard Poizner at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. I would like to thank the following people for their support, consulting, assistance, comments, and discussions of this research: Ursula Bellugi, Sandra Chung, David Corina, Carol Georgopolous, Edward Klima, Lucinda O'Grady, Maureen O'Grady, Carol Padden, Sally Rice, Leslie Saxon, Dennis Schemenauer, and three anonymous NLLT reviewers. Illustrations were made by Frank A. Paul, copyright Dr. Ursula Bellugi, The Salk Institute.
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Lillo-Martin, D. Two kinds of null arguments in American Sign Language. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 4, 415–444 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00134469
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