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Peer reviewedGoldin-Meadow, Susan; And Others – Psychological Review, 1996
A model is proposed to explain when communication in the manual modality will assume grammatical properties and when it will not. An experiment with 16 hearing adults suggests the necessity of segmentation and combination in all communication. Manual communication need not be characterized by grammatical properties only when it accompanies speech.…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Skills, Deafness, Grammar
Peer reviewedMarschark, Marc; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1991
Discusses a study of differences in nonliteral language use among deaf women, women who could hear, and women who could hear and who used sign language. Subjects told stories orally and in sign to children of 4 and 10 years. Deaf mothers' nonliteral content was higher, whereas hearing mothers' stories were longer. (Author/GH)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Competence
