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Peer reviewedFillmore, Charles J. – Sign Language Studies, 2003
Maintains that certain kinds of structured background information should be treated as essential components or accompaniments of word definitions. Discusses frame semantics, and presents a vision of the ideal dictionary, which is now becoming possible because of advances in computerized access to complex sources of information. (VWL)
Descriptors: Deafness, Definitions, Dictionaries, English
Peer reviewedPrinz, 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
