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Berent, Gerald P. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
This article explores 46 deaf college students' knowledge of English wh-question formation in the context of government-binding theory and an associated learnability theory. Results of two learnability tasks revealed that, despite years of exposure to English language input, many deaf learners had not internalized the positive evidence required to…
Descriptors: College Students, Deafness, Expressive Language, Grammar