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Word Type and Modality in the Emerging Expressive Vocabularies of Preschool Children with Down Syndrome
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Foster-Cohen, Susan; Newbury, Jayne; Macrae, Toby; van Bysterveldt, Anne – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Previous studies have explored the size and word type composition (nouns, predicates, etc.) of expressive vocabularies of preschool children with Down syndrome, both spoken and signed. Separately, overall preferences for modality of expression have also been explored. Aims: To extend previous findings by describing the relationships…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Down Syndrome, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary
Interactional Infrastructure across Modalities: A Comparison of Repair Initiators and Continuers in British Sign Language and British English
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Hannah Lutzenberger; Lierin de Wael; Rehana Omardeen; Mark Dingemanse – Sign Language Studies, 2024
Minimal expressions are at the heart of interaction: Interjections like "Huh?" and "Mhm" keep conversations flowing by establishing and reinforcing intersubjectivity among interlocutors. Crosslinguistic research has identified that similar interactional pressures can yield structurally similar words (e.g., to initiate repair…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Sign Language, English, Expressive Language
The Acquisition of Hong Kong Sign Language in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children: A Longitudinal Study of Sign Language Development in a Bimodal Bilingual Co-Enrollment Programme
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Philip Thierfelder; Gladys Tang; Jia Li – Deafness & Education International, 2024
This study followed the development of Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) proficiency in 31 deaf bimodal bilingual children (kindergarten through Primary 6) over two years. The Hong Kong Sign Language Elicitation Tool (HKSL-ET) was used at three time points to elicit the production of agreement, classifier, modal, negation, and wh-question structures.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Language Proficiency, Deafness
Academic American Sign Language in a Home of Two Deaf Parents and Their Young Deaf Children
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Finley, Alayna; Cannon, Joanna E. – Sign Language Studies, 2022
This study examined the extended discourse used by two Deaf parents with their two Deaf children (ages two and four). The study was conducted using an in-depth examination of parental expressive use of American Sign Language, looking at the use of discourse and the features and contexts that offered the most opportunity for rich language…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Family Environment, Academic Language, Early Intervention
Individual Differences in the Signed Communication of Deaf Children.
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Suty, Karen A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1986
Analysis of spontaneous storytelling samples of deaf 5- to 7-year-olds (N=15), all exposed to manually coded English for some time, differentially showed characteristics more consistent with either English or Sign Language in the language areas of explicit relations, mimed relations, incorporated relations, and English Functors. (CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Children, Deafness, Discourse Analysis
Poetry and Song in a Language Without Sound
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Klima, Edward S. – Cognition, 1976
Examines the form that poetic function assumes in American Sign Language, a language that has a structural organization different from oral languages and where the possibilities for poetic organization are radically different. Examples of a complex type of composition called art-sign distinguished by three levels of structure are analyzed.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Art Song, Comparative Analysis, Expressive Language
Language Codes and Sense-Making among Deaf Schoolchildren.
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Maxwell, Madeline M.; Doyle, Jeanne – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 1996
As most deaf individuals experience two languages (American Sign Language, English) and three modalities (sign, speech, print), this article describes code variations and adaptations in particular situations at a school for the deaf. Most language was mixed in both code and mode; such mixing was seen to be a strategy which uniquely adapts…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Communication (Thought Transfer)