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Direct linkFitch, Allison; Arunachalam, Sudha; Lieberman, Amy M. – Cognitive Science, 2021
Across languages, children map words to meaning with great efficiency, despite a seemingly unconstrained space of potential mappings. The literature on how children do this is primarily limited to spoken language. This leaves a gap in our understanding of sign language acquisition, because several of the hypothesized mechanisms that children use…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Acquisition, Simulation, Cues
