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van Beijsterveldt, Liesbeth M.; van Hell, Janet G. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This study examined temporal reference marking in texts written by Dutch deaf children and adults who differed in sign language proficiency. The temporal reference marking systems in Dutch and Sign Language of the Netherlands (SLN) differ substantially, with Dutch having a wide range of lexical and morphological markers of temporal reference, and…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Sign Language, Deafness
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Capirci, Olga; Iverson, Jana M.; Montanari, Sandro; Volterra, Virginia – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2002
Examined potential effects of early exposure to sign language on the use of communicative gestures by a bilingual hearing child of deaf parents. Data were analyzed to identify types and tokens of communicative gestures, words, signs, and the ways in which they were combined. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition