… when discussing language choices regarding deaf infants. … allow deaf children to “hear”
and achieve normal language and … As of 2006, 80% of deaf infants in Northern Europe were …

… on access to natural sign languages, such as ASL, and not sign systems alone for … language
learning theory, exposure to sign language must make up at least 20% of total language …

… for sign language in infants at the beginning of the language acquisition process (Section
2.2), and studies that focus on potential modality effects in native acquisition of sign languages …

… A, B, G, C, O and 5 as unmarked as these handshapes are found in all sign languages. …
More data and studies about hearing and deaf infants without a sign language environment …

… as a first language. Like all languages, sign languages have linguistic rules for how words,
… ‘Perception of motherese in a signed language by 6-month-old deaf infants.’ Developmental …

… spoken languages and then adapted to assess lexical development in sign languages. In …
hearing infants and toddlers acquiring a spoken language and (b) the composition of early …

… Sign Language (Bali), and Adamarobe Sign Language (Ghana). Deaf community sign
languages … However, the study of new languages is in its infancy, and researchers use different …

… excerpts of the infant- and adult-directed sign produced by the 5 deaf mothers described in
the … deaf infants will attend to and prefer infant-directed signing over adult-directed signing. …

… for the first time to study infant language acquisition, we … deaf babies (i) contained a reduced
subset of the possible linguistically relevant “sign-phonetic” units in natural sign languages…

… deaf mothers adapt their signing to benefit young deaf children who are just beginning to
learn sign, and we consider similarities and differences in the sign … to signed language, they …