Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ428698
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1991
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ASL or Contact Signing: Issues of Judgment.
Lucas, Ceil; Valli, Clayton
Language in Society, v20 n2 p201-16 Jun 1991
Reports on one aspect of an ongoing study of language contact in the American deaf community. The ultimate goal of the study is a linguistic description of contact signing and a reexamination of claims that it is a pidgin. Patterns of language use are reviewed and the role of demographic information in judgments is examined. (29 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Demography, English, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Pidgins, Sign Language
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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