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Direct linkSandra K. Wood – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The primary goal of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between Universal Grammar and the properties that Universal Grammar constrains, by investigating how language is created/acquired. The framework proposed in this dissertation provides us with tools for predicting what will and will not appear in linguistic systems of…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Sign Language, Grammar, Native Language
Peer reviewedStokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 2000
Proposes that a mute verbal modeling system gets lodged in the brain, because the brain is human and modeling, representing, and communicating create connections in the brain. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Body Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Deafness, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedStokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1995
Examines arguments that language comes from innate, abstract knowledge of universal grammar that signers use to create new grammatical features. (12 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Grammar
