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Rodríguez-Ortiz, Isabel R.; Pérez, Mar; Valmaseda, Marian; Cantillo, Coral; Díez, M. Aránzazu; Montero, Ignacio; Moreno-Pérez, F. Javier; Pardo-Guijarro, María Jesús; Saldaña, David – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020
This article presents the adaptation of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (CDI; Fenson et al., 1993, "Guide and technical manual for the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories." San Diego, CA: Singular Press; Fenson et al. 1994, Variability in early communicative development. "Monographs of the Society for…
Descriptors: Spanish, Sign Language, Measures (Individuals), Language Skills
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Caselli, Naomi K.; Pyers, Jennie E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Lexical iconicity--signs or words that resemble their meaning--is overrepresented in children's early vocabularies. Embodied theories of language acquisition predict that symbols are more learnable when they are grounded in a child's firsthand experiences. As such, pantomimic iconic signs, which use the signer's body to represent a body, might be…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Vocabulary Development, Lexicology, Semantics
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Fieldsteel, Zoe; Bottoms, Aiken; Lieberman, Amy M. – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Parent input during interaction with young children varies across languages and contexts with regard to the relative number of words from different lexical categories, particularly nouns and verbs. Previous work has focused on spoken language input. Little is known about the lexical composition of parent input in American Sign Language (ASL). We…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Usage, Interpersonal Communication, Context Effect