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Generation of Signs within Semantic and Phonological Categories: Data from Deaf Adults and Children Who Use American Sign Language
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Beal-Alvarez, Jennifer S.; Figueroa, Daileen M. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2017
Two key areas of language development include semantic and phonological knowledge. Semantic knowledge relates to word and concept knowledge. Phonological knowledge relates to how language parameters combine to create meaning. We investigated signing deaf adults' and children's semantic and phonological sign generation via one-minute tasks,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Phonological Awareness, Adults
Hearing Parents and Deaf Children: Some Perspectives on Sign Communication and Service Delivery.
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Ritter-Brinton, Kathryn; Stewart, David – American Annals of the Deaf, 1992
The perspectives of seven hearing parents on their use of sign communication with their deaf children were evaluated. All parents had chosen Signed English rather than American Sign Language (ASL). Parents' understanding of ASL varied greatly; they reported difficulty in developing personal and family fluency in Signed English; and they identified…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Children, Communication Skills, Deafness
Levels of Development in the Language of Deaf Children: ASL Grammatical Processes, Signed English Structures, and Semantic Features.
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Livingston, Sue – Sign Language Studies, 1983
A study of spontaneous sign language of six deaf children of hearing parents, examined three times in a 15-month period, is described. Processes and structures representative of and not representative of signed English were sought at various levels of linguistic complexity, including developing semantics, and compared with American Sign Language.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Sign Language, Children, Deafness
Comprehension of Spoken, Written and Signed Sentences in Childhood Language Disorders.
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Bishop, D. V. M. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1982
Nine children suffering from Landau-Kleffner (L-K) syndrome and 25 children with developmental expressive disorders were tested for comprehension of English grammatical structures in spoken, written, and signed language modalities. L-K children demonstrated comprehension problems in all three language modalities and tended to treat language as…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Deafness