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Peer reviewedSchick, Brenda S. – Sign Language Studies, 1990
Observation of severely to profoundly deaf four- to nine-year-olds (N=24) producing three types of multi-morphemic classifier predicates in American Sign Language showed that handshape production was influenced both by morphological and syntactic complexity, while handshape errors were not based on anatomical complexity alone. (26 references)…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Deafness, Expressive Language
