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Peer reviewedZorfass, Judith M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1981
Presents study which explored metalinguistic abilities of prelingually deaf children who are users of Signed English with regard to their explicit segmentation of Signed English sentences into words. Subjects exhibited varying abilities that increased with age and were similar to developmental patterns in hearing populations. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Research, Morphemes, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedMaxwell, Madeline; Bernstein, Mark E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Describes research into the correspondence between speech and sign language by looking at simultaneous communication as it is used by fluent deaf persons. The study aims to determine what relationship, if any, exists between the morpheme level and the message level of utterances in discourse. (SED)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedPrinz, Philip M.; Masin, Louise – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Examines the effect of adult recasting in sign language on the acquisition of specific syntactic-semantic structures by deaf children aged 9 to 76 months. Results indicated that recasting triggered the acquisition of new syntactic-semantic structures in American Sign Language and English, evident in the spontaneous production of previously…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Deafness
