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Advances in the sign language development of deaf children /

Advances in the sign language development of deaf children / 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 .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

9780195180947 0195180941 (cloth : acidfree paper)

2004023070


Sign language acquisition.
Deaf children--Language.

HV2474 / .A38 2006

419 SCH