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Publication Date: 1981-Nov
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Metalinguistic Awareness in Young Deaf Children: A Preliminary Study.
Zorfass, Judith M.
Applied Psycholinguistics, v2 n4 p333-52 Nov 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, Sign Language, Word Recognition, Young Children
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Language: English
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