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Peer reviewedArmstrong, David F. – Sign Language Studies, 1983
Human languages can incorporate signs without obvious physical relationship to their referents. The nature of the relationship between sign (i.e., word or sign) and referent in signed and spoken languages is discussed from cognitive and historical research perspectives, and observations are given on the biological bases of this phenomenon.…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns
PDF pending restorationChimombo, Moira – 1979
This longitudinal study of bilingual language acquisition analyzes the order of acquisition of English grammatical morphemes in a child bilingual in English and Chichewa (a Bantu lanugage of East Central Africa). The order of acquisition obtained is compared to that obtained by Brown (1973) for monolingual English speaking children and that…
Descriptors: Bantu Languages, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language
