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Peer reviewedLevy, Yonata – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Considers the cross-linguistic findings concerning the early development of formal, arbitrary, grammatical systems in normal hearing and deaf children and in children with congenital brain abnormalities. Evidence is reviewed that shows an early acquisition of grammatical forms. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Deafness
Peer reviewedCrain, Stephen; And Others – Language Acquisition, 1996
Argues against the linguistic account of children's responses to sentences with universal quantification and reports on investigations of their comprehension and production of quantificational sentences. The article concludes that young children have full grammatical competence with universal quantification. (58 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Child Language, Deafness
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
Peer reviewedAnderson, Diane E.; Reilly, Judy S. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Focuses on the acquisition of negation in American Sign Language (ASL) and the developmental relationship between the communicative and grammatical (or linguistic) headshakes for negation in deaf children acquiring ASL. Results indicate that the systems for communication and language are differentially mediated. (35 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Download full textClark, Eve V., Ed.; Holden, Gary, Ed. – 1987
Presented is a collection of 14 conference papers on various aspects of child language acquisition. Papers and authors include: "Language and Psychological Development" (Jean Berko Gleason); "Regression in the Phonological Development of Two Children" (Ken M. Bleile, J. Bruce Tomblin); "Children's Acquisition of the…
Descriptors: Adverbs, American Sign Language, Child Language, Chinese
Clark, Eve V., Ed.; And Others – 1989
Papers in this volume include the following: "The Structural Sources of Verb Meaning" (Lila R. Gleitman); "Acquisition of Noun Incorporation in Inuktitut" (Shanley Allen, Martha Crago); "Why Do Children Omit Subjects?" (Paul Bloom); "Acquiring Language in a Creole Setting: Theoretical and Methodological…
Descriptors: Adverbs, American Sign Language, Child Language, Chinese
Eckman, Fred R., Ed.; Hastings, Ashley J., Ed. – 1979
Papers presented at a 1977 symposium on language acquisition held at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee are included. Contents are as follows: "Assumptions, Methods and Goals in Language Acquisition Research" (Sheldon); "The Mother as LAD: Interaction between Order and Frequency of Parental Input and Child Production"…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Arabic, Bilingualism, Child Language
