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Peer reviewedScroggs, 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
Peer reviewedLayton, Thomas L.; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Reports on research into the early semantic-syntactic utterances of deaf children as compared to those of learning children. It is suggested that differences in acquisition patterns may be attributable to the pedagogical nature of deaf language acquisition. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Handicapped Children, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedPrinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Reports on an experiment describing the lexical development of a hearing child with a deaf mother and hearing father. Data confirm previous findings that (1) sign emerges before spoken word, (2) acquisition stages are similar in ASL and spoken English, and (3) the child initially develops one lexical system. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, English, Language Acquisition
