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Peer reviewedSiple, Patricia – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1985
Introduces three papers (published in this issue) contrasting the development of gestures and sign language with spoken language in order to specify the nature of language plasticity (susceptibility to change) and robustness (invariance). Focuses on question of whether these are parallel systems or an integrated system with two forms of…
Descriptors: Children, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Oral Language
Armstrong, David F.; Katz, Solomon H. – Journal of Visual/Verbal Languaging, 1982
Discusses the hypothesis that right hemispheric cognitive processes underlie establishment of meaning in language and in processing of linguistic gestalts, and examines several lines of evidence. Also examined is the hypothesis that societal complexity is related to differences in relative dependence upon cognitive processes controlled by cerebral…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Hypothesis Testing, Language Research, Language Role
