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Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Mylander, Carolyn – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Spontaneous gestures of a deaf child unexposed to sign language were studied to determine whether regularities existing within gestures were akin to morphological structure. The child's gestures, handshape/motion combinations forming a matrix for communication, suggest that structural regularity at the intraword level is a resilient property of…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Manual Communication