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Peer reviewedLaird, Charlton – College Composition and Communication, 1972
Author presents data on Washoe, a chimpanzee taught American Sign Language; he concludes that this represents true language learning. (SP)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Language Research, Language Usage, Manual Communication
Peer reviewedFerreira-Brito, Lucinda – Sign Language Studies, 1984
mparison of sign language used by Urubu-Kaapor Indians in the Amazonian jungle (UKSL) and sign language used by deaf people in Sao Paulo (SPSL). In the former situation, deaf people are more integrated and accepted into their community than in Sao Paulo, because most hearing individuals are able and willing to use sign language to communicate with…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Deafness, Foreign Countries
Newport, Elissa L.; Ashbrook, Elizabeth F. – 1977
This report is a cross-linguistic study that compares the sequence of emergence of semantic relations in English with the sequence of emergence of these relations in the acquisition of American Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL) differs from English in modality (it is a visual-gesture language rather than an auditory-vocal one) and in the…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 27 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: facilitation of language development in disadvantaged preschool children; auditory-visual discrimination skills, language performance, and development of manual…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Youth, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
