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Peer reviewedMounty, Judith L. – Sign Language Studies, 1989
Explores the acquisition of productive verbs and (spatial) agreement of American Sign Language (ASL) in the signing of two deaf children with hearing parents. The children, observed at two ages, initially showed markedly different developmental trends. Then their grammatical development converged, and they were able to suit ASL to the kind of…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Deafness, Grammar
