Acquisition of ASL and Spoken English by a Hearing Child of a Deaf Mother and a Hearing Father: Phase II, Early Combinatorial Patterns.

Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A.

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Publication Date: 1981

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Acquisition of ASL and Spoken English by a Hearing Child of a Deaf Mother and a Hearing Father: Phase II, Early Combinatorial Patterns.

Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A.

Sign Language Studies, n30 p78-88 Spr 1981

Studies the simultaneous language development in American Sign Language and spoken English by a hearing girl. Findings show: (1) a mixture of oral and manual babbling, (2) a code-switching ability across modalities, and (3) a single syntactic system incorporating rules from both languages but with two separate lexicons. (Author/PJM)

Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition, Language Role, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Vocabulary Development

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Language: English

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