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Tilbe Göksun; Asli Aktan-Erciyes; Dilay Z. Karadöller; Ö. Ece Demir-Lira – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Children need to learn the demands of their native language in the early vocabulary development phase. In this dynamic process, parental multimodal input may shape neurodevelopmental trajectories while also being tailored by child-related factors. Moving beyond typically characterized group profiles, in this article, we synthesize growing evidence…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship, Child Language, Vocabulary Development
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Perniss, Pamela; Lu, Jenny C.; Morgan, Gary; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Developmental Science, 2018
Most research on the mechanisms underlying referential mapping has assumed that learning occurs in ostensive contexts, where label and referent co-occur, and that form and meaning are linked by arbitrary convention alone. In the present study, we focus on "iconicity" in language, that is, resemblance relationships between form and…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Linguistic Input, Child Language, Semiotics
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Green, Jennifer; Hodge, Gabrielle; Kelly, Barbara F. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
In this article, we provide an overview of the last twenty years of research on Indigenous sign languages, deaf community sign languages, co-speech gesture, and multimodal communication in the Australian context. From a global perspective, research on sign languages and on the gestures that normally accompany speech has been used as the basis for…
Descriptors: Deafness, Indigenous Populations, Sign Language, Nonverbal Communication
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Pernis, Pamela; Lu, Jenny C.; Morgan, Gary; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Grantee Submission, 2017
Most research on the mechanisms underlying referential mapping has assumed that learning occurs in ostensive contexts, where label and referent co-­occur, and that form and meaning are linked by arbitrary convention alone. In the present study, we focus on "iconicity" in language, i.e. resemblance relationships between form and meaning,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Language Acquisition, Semiotics
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Lu, Jenny; Jones, Anna; Morgan, Gary – Journal of Child Language, 2016
There is debate about how input variation influences child language. Most deaf children are exposed to a sign language from their non-fluent hearing parents and experience a delay in exposure to accessible language. A small number of children receive language input from their deaf parents who are fluent signers. Thus it is possible to document the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Sign Language, Deafness, Language Acquisition
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Pichler, Deborah Chen; Hochgesang, Julie A.; Lillo-Martin, Diane; de Quadros, Ronice Müller; Reynolds, Wanette – Sign Language Studies, 2016
This article addresses the special challenges associated with collecting longitudinal samples of the spontaneous sign language and spoken language production by young bimodal bilingual children. We discuss the methods used in our study of children in the United States and Brazil. Since one of our goals is to observe both sign language and speech,…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Sign Language, Longitudinal Studies, Bilingualism