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Marschark, Marc; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1991
Discusses a study of differences in nonliteral language use among deaf women, women who could hear, and women who could hear and who used sign language. Subjects told stories orally and in sign to children of 4 and 10 years. Deaf mothers' nonliteral content was higher, whereas hearing mothers' stories were longer. (Author/GH)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Competence
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Abrahamsen, Adele; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1985
Uses data from Toddler Sign Program, a nine-month program of bimodal input and assessment involving 25 handicapped and nonhandicapped toddlers (11 to 33 months old at program onset). Explores boundary conditions (most extreme conditions under which a phenomenon holds) of sign advantage phenomenon (where signs are learned earlier and more easily…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Sign Language
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Morford, Marolyn – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1985
The gesture systems developed by 10 deaf children, each incapable of acquiring a conventional spoken language naturally and not exposed to a conventional manual language by their hearing parents, were compared and contrasted to both the speech and the gesture systems developed by three hearing children learning English. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Sign Language