Guest Editors’ Preface

Abstract

This special issue of Sign Language and Linguistics is a look into the future of sign language phonology. These are six of the stellar, forward-looking presentations that took place at the tenth meeting of the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research conference (TISLR 10) in the fall of 2010, the theme of which was "Research Methodologies in Sign Language Linguistics. " The field of phonology is changing, and consequently methodologies in sign language phonology are changing as well. These papers represent some of those changes. During the sixties and seventies most of the work on sign language phonology was aimed at showing that there was a level of phonological analysis in sign languages (Stokoe