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Best Practices for Building a Bimodal/Bilingual Child Language Corpus
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Pichler, Deborah Chen; Hochgesang, Julie A.; Lillo-Martin, Diane; de Quadros, Ronice Müller; Reynolds, Wanette – Sign Language Studies, 2016
This article addresses the special challenges associated with collecting longitudinal samples of the spontaneous sign language and spoken language production by young bimodal bilingual children. We discuss the methods used in our study of children in the United States and Brazil. Since one of our goals is to observe both sign language and speech,…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Sign Language, Longitudinal Studies, Bilingualism
Language Acquisition in Two Modalities: The Role of Nonlinguistic Cues in Linguistic Mastery.
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Jackson, Catherine A. – Sign Language Studies, 1989
A longitudinal study investigated how a hearing child of deaf parents simultaneously acquired American Sign Language and spoken English. Neither of two unique properties of signed language (personal pronouns or "negative" sign markers) facilitated acquisition of English, suggesting that children's acquisition of grammar is relatively…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, English
Beyond Grammar: Developing Stylistic Variation when the Input Is Diverse.
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Mounty, 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
A Signing Deaf Child's Use of Speech.
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Maxwell, Madeline M. – Sign Language Studies, 1989
Longitudinal study of a deaf child's (with deaf signing and speaking parents) speech functions revealed that the child, before age three, rarely attempted speech imitation. By age five, the child had acquired new words through speechreading and had adjusted language modes to listener needs for flexible communication, and speech behavior assumed…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Deafness, Discourse Analysis
Simultaneous Acquisition of ASL and Spoken English (In a Hearing Child of a Deaf Mother and Hearing Father).
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Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Reports on an experiment describing the lexical development of a hearing child with a deaf mother and hearing father. Data confirm previous findings that (1) sign emerges before spoken word, (2) acquisition stages are similar in ASL and spoken English, and (3) the child initially develops one lexical system. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, English, Language Acquisition
Early Letter Recognition, Letter Naming, and Reading Skills in a Signing and Speaking Child.
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Bonvillian, John; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1988
A young child's acquisition of language and language-related skills in two modalities is discussed. The hearing daughter of a deaf father and of a hearing mother showed accelerated language development in both sign and speech. Reading readiness tests administered at 27 and 32 months revealed advanced development for her age. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Finger Spelling