Advances in the sign language development of deaf children

Advances in the sign language development of deaf children / edited by Brenda Schick, Marc Marschark, and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer.

The authors provide cogent summaries of what is known about early gestural development, interactive processes adapted to visual communication, & the processes of semantic, syntactic, & pragmatic development in sign.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schick, Brenda S. (Brenda Sue), 1952-, Marschark, Marc, Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:Perspectives on deafness.
Subjects:
Sign language acquisition.
Deaf children > Language.
Sign language.
Language acquisition.
Children.
children (people by age group)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Sign Language.
Manual Communication.
Rehabilitation of Hearing Impaired > methods.
Language Development.
Child.
Sign language
Language acquisition
Children
Deaf children > Language
Sign language acquisition
Gebarentaal.
Doven.
Kinderen.
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Table of Contents:
  • Understanding sign language development by deaf children / Marc Marschark, Brenda Schick, and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer
  • Issues of linguistic typology in the study of sign language development of deaf children / Dan I. Slobin
  • The development of gesture in hearing and deaf children / V. Volterra, J.M. Iverson, and M. Castrataro
  • Patterns and effects of language input to deaf infants and toddlers from deaf and hearing mothers / Patricia E. Spencer and Margaret Harris
  • Acquiring a visually-motivated language / Brenda Schick
  • Lexical development of deaf children acquiring signed languages / Diane Anderson
  • Deaf children are verb attenders / Nini Hoiting
  • Learning to fingerspell twice / Carol A. Padden
  • The form of early signs / Richard P. Meier
  • Acquisition of syntax in signed languages / Diane Lillo-Martin and Deborah Chen Pichler
  • How faces come to serve grammar / Judy Reilly
  • Deaf children's acquisition of modal terms / Barbara Shaffer
  • The development of narrative skills in British Sign Language / Gary Morgan
  • Natural signed language acquisition within the social context of the classroom / Jenny L. Singleton and Dianne D. Morgan.

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