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Peer reviewedCrowson, Kate – Early Child Development and Care, 1994
A study of the signing of six deaf preschoolers found that they produced phonological and morphological errors, and semantic overgeneralizations, comparable to those made by hearing children when learning to speak. This suggests that deaf children actively construct sign language rules in the same way that hearing children build up the rules of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
