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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195180947 0195180941 (cloth : acidfree paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004023070 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sign language acquisition.<br/>Deaf children--Language.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV2474  / .A38 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>419 SCH