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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
Peer reviewedMounty, Judith L. – Sign Language Studies, 1989
Explores the acquisition of productive verbs and (spatial) agreement of American Sign Language (ASL) in the signing of two deaf children with hearing parents. The children, observed at two ages, initially showed markedly different developmental trends. Then their grammatical development converged, and they were able to suit ASL to the kind of…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Deafness, Grammar
