The Use of Gesturing and Pantomiming: The Language of a Nine-year-old Deaf Boy.

Scroggs, Carolyn L.

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ERIC Number: EJ242524

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Publication Date: 1981

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The Use of Gesturing and Pantomiming: The Language of a Nine-year-old Deaf Boy.

Scroggs, Carolyn L.

Sign Language Studies, n30 p61-77 Spr 1981

Analysis of the communicative skills of a nine-year-old deaf boy with minimal schooling showed pantomiming and gestures to be his major mode of communication. Certain semantic patterns prevailed. Use of left or right hand also had semantic correlates. Formal and idiosynacratic signs were discovered in the boy's vocabulary. (Author/PJM)

Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Sign Language, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Syntax

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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