Advances in the sign language development of deaf children [electronic resource] /

Advances in the sign language development of deaf children [electronic resource] / Sign language development edited by Brenda Schick, Marc Marschark, and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xvi, 395 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Perspectives on deafness . - Perspectives on deafness. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Understanding sign language development by deaf children / Issues of linguistic typology in the study of sign language development of deaf children / The development of gesture in hearing and deaf children / Patterns and effects of language input to deaf infants and toddlers from deaf and hearing mothers / Acquiring a visually-motivated language / exical development of deaf children acquiring signed languages / Deaf children are verb attenders / Learning to fingerspell twice / The form of early signs / Acquisition of syntax in signed languages / How faces come to serve grammar / Deaf children's acquisition of modal terms / The development of narrative skills in British Sign Language / Natural signed language acquisition within the social context of the classroom / Marc Marschark, Brenda Schick, and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer -- Dan I. Slobin -- V. Volterra, J.M. Iverson, and M. Castrataro -- Patricia E. Spencer and Margaret Harris -- Brenda Schick -- Diane Anderson -- Nini Hoiting -- Carol A. Padden -- Richard P. Meier -- Diane Lillo-Martin and Deborah Chen Pichler -- Judy Reilly -- Barbara Shaffer -- Gary Morgan -- Jenny L. Singleton and Dianne D. Morgan.


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Sign language acquisition.
Deaf children--Language.


Electronic books.

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