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ERIC Number: EJ514011
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0277
The Resilience of Combinatorial Structure at the Word Level: Morphology in Self-Styled Gesture Systems.
Goldin-Meadow, Susan; And Others
Cognition, v56 n3 p195-262 Sep 1995
Videotaped four deaf preschoolers and their mothers during free play at home and coded the preschoolers' and mothers' gestures according to handshapes. Found that all children produced gestures characterized by combinations of handshapes and motions, and that children's gestures did not correspond to their mothers' gestures. (BC)
Descriptors: Body Language, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children, Sentences
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Words