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Peer reviewedSchick, Brenda S. – Sign Language Studies, 1990
Observation of severely to profoundly deaf four- to nine-year-olds (N=24) producing three types of multi-morphemic classifier predicates in American Sign Language showed that handshape production was influenced both by morphological and syntactic complexity, while handshape errors were not based on anatomical complexity alone. (26 references)…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Deafness, Expressive Language
Download full textSpence, Carol M. – 1971
Some insight into the relationship between language and thought can be achieved through a comparison between American Sign Language and English. This paper discusses several studies on this topic and defines some of the problems. The author feels that the deaf using American Sign Language cannot be considered linguistically deficient. A structural…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cognitive Processes, Deafness, Dialects
