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Jennifer Sander; Caroline F. Rowland; Amy M. Lieberman – Developmental Science, 2025
Children's ability to share attention with another social partner (joint attention) plays an important role in language development. However, our understanding of the role of joint attention comes mainly from children learning spoken languages, which gives a very narrow, speech-centric impression of the role of joint attention. This study broadens…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Attention, Deafness, Interpersonal Relationship
Lee Orfila – Sign Language Studies, 2024
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) is an extinct village sign language hypothesized to be a sister of British Sign Language (BSL) and a significant contributor to early American Sign Language (ASL) (Groce 1985). After the last deaf MVSL signer died, signs were elicited from five hearing signers. This study analyzes that data through a series…
Descriptors: Sign Language, American Sign Language, Language Variation, Diachronic Linguistics
Yachong Cui; Rachel Saulsburry; Kimberly Wolbers – American Annals of the Deaf, 2024
Limited access to spoken and signed language is a worldwide phenomenon affecting deaf children. Language delay caused by impeded language acquisition has negative cascading effects on deaf children's learning and development. In the event of stymied language development, deaf students exhibit highly errored writing and commit errors unseen in the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Written Language, Writing Evaluation, North Americans