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Stress in ASL: Empirical Evidence and Linguistic Issues.
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Wilbur, Ronnie B. – Language and Speech, 1999
Focuses on phrasal prominence in American Sign Language (ASL). Reviews the marking of stress and phrase boundaries in ASL, and discusses prominence assignment at the phrasal level, with brief mention of lexical stress. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Grammar, Phrase Structure, Stress (Phonology)
Language Acquisition and the Discovery of Phrase Structure.
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Wolff, J. Gerard – Language and Speech, 1980
Reports part of a continuing project to develop a theory of children's first-language acquisition using computer modeling techniques. Notes the correspondence of structures formed by the computer program with recognized structures in English. Discusses anomalies in the program's performance. (RL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Computer Oriented Programs, Language Acquisition, Language Research