Lending a Helping Hand: Linguistic Input and Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children.

Prinz, Philip M.; Masin, Louise

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Publication Date: 1985

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Lending a Helping Hand: Linguistic Input and Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children.

Prinz, Philip M.; Masin, Louise

Applied Psycholinguistics, v6 n4 p357-70 Dec 1985

Examines the effect of adult recasting in sign language on the acquisition of specific syntactic-semantic structures by deaf children aged 9 to 76 months. Results indicated that recasting triggered the acquisition of new syntactic-semantic structures in American Sign Language and English, evident in the spontaneous production of previously non-used sign utterances. (Author/SED)

Descriptors: American Sign Language, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Deafness, English, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Parent Child Relationship, Pidgins, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Videotape Recordings, Young Children

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Language: English

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