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Peer reviewedStokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1987
Attempts to prove that users of American Sign Language (ASL) do perform within a closed system of manual and nonmanual sign production features (phonemes and distinctive features). Deaf signers are quite capable of creating nonsense words as well as communicating with signers of other languages through pantomime and other paralinguistic features.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills
Peer reviewedde Villiers, Jill; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
Reports on a longitudinal study of developing communication in two profoundly deaf preschool boys growing up in oral deaf families who use oral English as their primary language. Results provide a window on the natural ontogenesis of a compensatory gestural system. (Contains 44 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, English, Language Research
