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Sondermann, Kerstin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Defining what makes a person bilingual is notoriously difficult and dependent on various factors like fluency, age of acquisition, and situational context, among others. The notion of a "balanced bilingual" is even more elusive and fraught with limitations regarding the proper assessment and linguistic profiling of bilinguals, leading to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Students, Nonverbal Communication, Qualitative Research
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Hewes, Gordon W. – Visible Language, 1973
Descriptors: Anthropology, Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Diachronic Linguistics
Peng, Fred C. C., Ed. – 1978
A collection of research materials on sign language and primatology is presented here. The essays attempt to show that: sign language is a legitimate language that can be learned not only by humans but by nonhuman primates as well, and nonhuman primates have the capability to acquire a human language using a different mode. The following…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Anthropology, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)