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Peer reviewedZorfass, Judith M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1981
Presents study which explored metalinguistic abilities of prelingually deaf children who are users of Signed English with regard to their explicit segmentation of Signed English sentences into words. Subjects exhibited varying abilities that increased with age and were similar to developmental patterns in hearing populations. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Research, Morphemes, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedRosenberg, Sheldon; Abbeduto, Leonard – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Samples of the communicative behavior of a group of mildly mentally retarded adults were examined for indications of mature linguistic competence (specifically, grammatical morpheme and complex sentence use).Findings confirmed the expectation that the eventual mastery of these aspects of linguistic competence in higher-level retarded individuals…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Skills, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis
