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de Villiers, Jill; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
Reports on a longitudinal study of developing communication in two profoundly deaf preschool boys growing up in oral deaf families who use oral English as their primary language. Results provide a window on the natural ontogenesis of a compensatory gestural system. (Contains 44 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, English, Language Research
Wedell-Monnig, Jacelyn; Westerman, Terry B. – 1977
The feedback model of maternal language indicates that maternal language development is tailored to child feedback. The conversational model indicates that adjustment in mothers' speech occurs before the onset of child language. In order to verify the validity of these models, the language of mothers of six hearing and six deaf 13- to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Discourse Analysis, Handicapped Children