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Peer reviewedBragman, Ruth; Hardy, Robert – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1979
Describes a study that investigated the development of pattern recognition and pattern reversal in 20 deaf children aged six through eight and its relation to age of exposure to a gestural symbol system. (Author/DS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness
Peer reviewedBorman, Deborah L.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
Metalinguistic abilities of 20 hearing-impaired children, aged 4-10, were assessed by asking them to judge synonymy of sentence pairs presented in Signed English, Pidgin Sign English, and American Sign Language. None of the children had developed metalinguistic abilities in any of the sign language systems. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedFuller, Donald R.; Wilbur, Ronnie B. – Sign Language Studies, 1987
A review of "Sign Languages Used by Deaf People, and Psycholinguistics: A Critical Evaluation" (A. Van Uden, 1986), a book "denying that ...there is any such thing as a sign language," points out that a sign language's perceived lack of phonological and morphological rules is a more social than linguistic problem. (CB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Figurative Language, Grammatical Acceptability, Hearing Impairments
