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Download full textLillo-Martin, Diane – 1984
The acquisition of several word formation devices in American Sign Language (ASL) by deaf children learning ASL as a native language focused on some devices analogous to word formation devices in spoken languages (compounding, affixation, and derivation) and some in ASL that may not have counterparts in spoken languages. They were examined using…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition
