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Best Practices for Building a Bimodal/Bilingual Child Language Corpus
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Pichler, Deborah Chen; Hochgesang, Julie A.; Lillo-Martin, Diane; de Quadros, Ronice Müller; Reynolds, Wanette – Sign Language Studies, 2016
This article addresses the special challenges associated with collecting longitudinal samples of the spontaneous sign language and spoken language production by young bimodal bilingual children. We discuss the methods used in our study of children in the United States and Brazil. Since one of our goals is to observe both sign language and speech,…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Sign Language, Longitudinal Studies, Bilingualism
The Use of Gesturing and Pantomiming: The Language of a Nine-year-old Deaf Boy.
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Scroggs, Carolyn L. – Sign Language Studies, 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
Communicative Interaction: Mother Modification and Child Acquisition of American Sign Language.
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Kantor, Rebecca – Sign Language Studies, 1982
Discusses the modifications in the direction of simplified and more linear language (American Sign Language) used by deaf mothers with their deaf children. (EKN)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition
Everything Old Is New Again: Observations from the Nineteenth Century About Sign Communication Training with Mentally Retarded Children.
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Bonvillian, John D.; Miller, Amanda J. – Sign Language Studies, 1995
Examines an 1847 report that reveals that sign communication training with mentally retarded children was used successfully during the last century. These children acquired signs and demonstrated improvement in their personal and social behavior. These findings are similar to those reported in recent research. (34 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Foreign Countries, Language Usage