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Peer reviewedMaxwell, Madeline M. – Sign Language Studies, 1988
Examination of a profoundly deaf child's fingerspelling in more than 100 hours of interaction videotaped at intervals over six years revealed a gradual acquisition of the rules for fingerspelling and knowledge of the relation of fingerspelling to signs and to printed and spoken words. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Deafness, Finger Spelling, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
