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Cheek, Adrianne; Cormier, Kearsy; Meier, Richard P.; Repp, Ann – Language, 2001
Explores the predictors of early mastery versus error in children's acquisition of American Sign Language. Hypothesizes that the most frequent values for a particular parameter in prelinguistic gesture will be the most frequent in early signs and the most likely sources of substitution when children make errors. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Acquisition
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Kehoe, Margaret; Stoel-Gammon, Carol – Language, 1997
Examines different approaches to prosodic acquisition: Gerken's S(W) production template; Fikkert's and Archibald's theories of stress acquisition and Demuth and Fee's prosodic hierarchy account. Results reveal that current approaches cannot account for findings in the data such as the increased preservation of final over nonfinal unstressed…
Descriptors: Child Language, Databases, Educational Games, Error Analysis (Language)