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Peer reviewedSuty, Karen A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1986
Analysis of spontaneous storytelling samples of deaf 5- to 7-year-olds (N=15), all exposed to manually coded English for some time, differentially showed characteristics more consistent with either English or Sign Language in the language areas of explicit relations, mimed relations, incorporated relations, and English Functors. (CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Children, Deafness, Discourse Analysis
