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Lu, Jenny; Jones, Anna; Morgan, Gary – Journal of Child Language, 2016
There is debate about how input variation influences child language. Most deaf children are exposed to a sign language from their non-fluent hearing parents and experience a delay in exposure to accessible language. A small number of children receive language input from their deaf parents who are fluent signers. Thus it is possible to document the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Sign Language, Deafness, Language Acquisition
Hochgesang, Julie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In my dissertation, I examine four notation systems used to represent hand configurations in child acquisition of signed languages. Linguists have long recognized the descriptive limitations of Stokoe notation, currently the most commonly used system for phonetic or phonological transcription, but continue using it because of its widespread…
Descriptors: Child Language, Sign Language, Phonetics, Phonology
Cutting, James E.; Kavanagh, James F. – Asha, A Journal of the American Speech and Hearing Association, 1976
A framework which considers speech and language as separate entities in a symbiotic relationship is presented, and basic questions are raised concerning how speech and language function together and what their reciprocal effects are. Based on the notion that speech and language are independent, various examples of speech without language and of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Language, Language Patterns
Kavanagh, James F., Ed.; Cutting, James E., Ed. – 1975
This book reports the proceedings of the conference on the role of speech in language, the fifth conference in the "Communicating by Language" Series, sponsored by the Growth and Development Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The focus of the first group of papers is on the development of speech in man and…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Language
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Stanford Univ., CA. Committee on Linguistics. – 1972
The research resumes presented here comprise the responses received by the Stanford Child Language Project to a general request for reports on research in progress. These reports include all those distributed at the Child Language Research Forum in March 1972 and a small number received later. The resumes cover a wide range of topics and present,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language, English
Stanford Univ., CA. Committee on Linguistics. – 1973
The research resumes presented here comprise the responses received by the Stanford Child Language Project to a general request for reports on research in progress. These reports include all those distributed at the Child Language Research Forum in April 1973. The resumes cover a wide range of topics and present, in order, the following…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language