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Scroggs, Carolyn L. – Sign Language Studies, 1981
Analysis of the communicative skills of a nine-year-old deaf boy with minimal schooling showed pantomiming and gestures to be his major mode of communication. Certain semantic patterns prevailed. Use of left or right hand also had semantic correlates. Formal and idiosynacratic signs were discovered in the boy's vocabulary. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Language Patterns, Language Usage
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
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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
Bard, Barbara; Sachs, Jacqueline S. – 1977
This paper describes the linguistic development of two hearing sons of deaf parents. Both were exposed to an early language environment different from that of the average hearing child. At the start of the study, the boys were aged 3 years, 9 months, and 1 year, 8 months, respectively. When first observed, the older child performed well below age…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language, Deafness
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan – 1979
The question is addressed whether a child would develop a communication system if a conventional linguistic model is absent. Six congenitally deaf children, who were not exposed to Sign Language, were observed and videotaped at play in their homes at intervals of one to three months. The children ranged in age from 1 year, 5 months to 4 years, 1…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Deafness, Deep Structure