This study describes the spontaneous sign language of six deaf children (6 to 16 years old)
of hearing parents, who were exposed to Signed English when after the age of six they first …

The effects of mental handicap and institutionalization on the development of language are
well known by now- but the situation is aggravated considerably where there is the …

In Chapter 2 Gee and Goodhart discuss the structure and acquisition of ASL in the light of
the nativization/denativization hypothesis, arguing forcefully that the study of ASL improves …

METHOD The procedure I followed is similar to Battison's (1974). I listed two-handed SLN
signs to informants and then asked them whether a one-handed version of the sign would …

The sociolinguistics of sign languages parallels as well as complements the sociolinguistics
of spoken languages. All of the key areas of sociolinguistics, such as multilingualism …

In psycholinguistics and clinical linguistics, the Sentence Repetition Task (SRT) is known to
be a valuable tool to screen general language abilities in both spoken and signed …

The term 'sign language'is used here to refer to any one of a large number of languages
found among deaf populations throughout the world. These languages are natural, not …

A total of 1,018 signs in one deaf child's naturalistic interaction with her deaf mother,
between the ages of 19 and 24 months were analyzed. This study summarizes regular …

This article reviews and discusses existing sign language assessment instruments and
those that are still under development. There are three groupings of sign language …

Factors influencing native and nonnative signers' syntactic judgment ability in American Sign
Language (ASL) were explored for 421 deaf students aged 7; 6–18; 5. Predictors for …