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Peer reviewedCheek, Adrianne; Cormier, Kearsy; Meier, Richard P.; Repp, Ann – Language, 2001
Explores the predictors of early mastery versus error in children's acquisition of American Sign Language. Hypothesizes that the most frequent values for a particular parameter in prelinguistic gesture will be the most frequent in early signs and the most likely sources of substitution when children make errors. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedSchilling-Estes, Natalie; Wolfram, Walt – Language, 1999
Comparison of the moribund dialects of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, and Smith Island, Maryland, demonstrates that valuable insight into the patterning of variation and change in language death can be obtained by investigating moribund varieties of healthy languages. Discusses comparative investigation of two kinds of linguistic decay:…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects
