Natural sign languages of deaf communities are acquired on the same time scale as that of
spoken languages if children have access to fluent signers providing input from birth. Infants …

Neste livro, Ronice Müller de Quadros inaugura as pesquisas sobre as línguas de herança–
aquelas usadas por comunidades locais em contextos nos quais outra língua é utilizada de …

Bimodal bilinguals, fluent in a signed and a spoken language, exhibit a unique form of
bilingualism because their two languages access distinct sensory-motor systems for …

In individuals who know more than one language, the languages are always active to some
degree. This has consequences for language processing, but bilinguals rarely make …

When considering deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) population, research recognizes that
fatigue due to communication challenges and multi-focal attention allocation is a significant …

A wide range of linguistic phenomena contribute to our understanding of the architecture of
the human linguistic system. In this paper we present a proposal dubbed Language …

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language
acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and …

Languages and Languaging in Deaf Education offers a profound vision for deaf education
and studies, as author Ruth Swanwick offers bold contributions towards a new pedagogical …

Children who are exposed to a spoken language and a signed language can become
bimodal bilinguals. Like adult bimodal bilinguals, children produce a variety of structures …

When spoken language (unimodal) bilinguals switch between languages, they must
simultaneously inhibit 1 language and activate the other language. Because American Sign …