Gesture in Early Child Language: Studies of Deaf and Hearing Children.

Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Morford, Marolyn

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ERIC Number: EJ324270

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Publication Date: 1985

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Gesture in Early Child Language: Studies of Deaf and Hearing Children.

Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Morford, Marolyn

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, v31 n2 p145-76 Apr 1985

The gesture systems developed by 10 deaf children, each incapable of acquiring a conventional spoken language naturally and not exposed to a conventional manual language by their hearing parents, were compared and contrasted to both the speech and the gesture systems developed by three hearing children learning English. (Author/BE)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Sign Language, Young Children

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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