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Peer reviewedSanders, Danielle M. – Sign Language Studies, 1986
Describes a study that analyzed and described humorous productions of deaf children and the reaction of other deaf children to those productions. One finding was that primarily verbal humor was appreciated more by older children with hearing parents; humor characterized by sign complexity, by children with deaf parents. (SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Deafness, Humor
Peer reviewedBullowa, Margaret – Sign Language Studies, 1977
For the two children studied and in the situations observed and recorded, important conditions for the emergence of language in the ontogeny of communication appear to be: (1) interaction with caretaking adults, (2) shared focal attention, and (3) specificity of reference. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Acquisition
