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Peer reviewedPrinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Reports on an experiment describing the lexical development of a hearing child with a deaf mother and hearing father. Data confirm previous findings that (1) sign emerges before spoken word, (2) acquisition stages are similar in ASL and spoken English, and (3) the child initially develops one lexical system. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, English, Language Acquisition
Newport, Elissa L.; Ashbrook, Elizabeth F. – 1977
This report is a cross-linguistic study that compares the sequence of emergence of semantic relations in English with the sequence of emergence of these relations in the acquisition of American Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL) differs from English in modality (it is a visual-gesture language rather than an auditory-vocal one) and in the…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
