Introduction, G.R. Coulter and S.R. Anderson; secondary licensing and the nondominant hand in ASL phonology, D. Brentari and J. Goldsmith; the nature of constrainst on the nondominant hand in ASL, J. Blevins; to branch or not to branch - underspecification in ASL handshape contours, D.P. Corina; reflections on the nature of ASL and the development of ASL linguistics - comments on a paper by David Corina, J.P. Gee; linearization of phonological tiers in ASL, W. Sandler; response to Sandler's "Linearization of Phonological Tiers in ASL", C.A. Padden; syllables and segments - hold the movement and move the holds!, R.B. Wilbur; a psycholinguistic perspective on phonological segmentation in sign and speech, R.P. Meier; holds and positions - comparing two models of segmentation in ASL, S.K. Liddel; against movement - comments on Liddell's paper, B. Hayes; sonority and syllable structure in American sign language, D.M. Perimutter; phrase-level prosody in ASL - final lengthening and phrasal contours, G.R. Coulter; linguistic expression and its relation to modality, S.R. Anderson.