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Once Is Not Enough: Standards of Well-Formedness in Manual Communication Created over Three Different Timespans.

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Singleton, Jenny L.; And Others – Language, 1993

Conventional sign language used by a community of signers over generations was compared with gestures invented by a deaf child over a period of years and with gestures invented by nonsigning hearing individuals on the spot. Findings suggest that an individual can introduce standards of well-formedness, but construction of standards requires…

Descriptors: Body Language, Comparative Analysis, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness

Beyond the Input Given: The Child's Role in the Acquisition of Language.

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Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Mylander, Carolyn – Language, 1990

This paper reviews research findings on the structural properties of deaf childrens' gestural communication systems and evaluates those properties in the context of data gained from other approaches to the question of the young child's language-making capacity. (over 100 references) (JL)

Descriptors: Deafness, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Input