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Download full textMounty, Judith Lynn – 1986
This study examined the possible sources of variability in sign language mastery in two deaf children of hearing parents. The study considered the interaction of environmental and innate factors within the framework of the "Nativization" hypothesis, which suggests that all language learners initially construct a linguistic system which…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Biological Influences, Case Studies, Child Language
Peer reviewedGoldin-Meadow, Susan; Mylander, Carolyn – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1984
Reports that four deaf children of hearing parents, who lacked usable conventional linguistic input, developed a gestural communication system that showed some of the structural regularities characteristic of early child language. Suggests that communication with a number of language-like properties can develop in an atypical language-learning…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Early Experience, Imitation
