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Title Advances in the sign language development of deaf children / edited by Brenda Schick, Marc Marschark, and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 395 pages) : illustrations
Series Perspectives on deafness
Perspectives on deafness.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Sign language acquisition.
Deaf children -- Language.
Sign language.
Language acquisition.
Children.
Correction of Hearing Impairment -- methods
Sign Language
Manual Communication
Language Development
Child
children (people by age group)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Sign Language.
Deaf children -- Language.
Sign language.
Manual Communication.
Rehabilitation of Hearing Impaired -- methods.
Language Development.
Child.
Sign language acquisition.
Sign language
Language acquisition
Children
Deaf children -- Language
Sign language acquisition
Gebarentaal.
Doven.
Kinderen.
Form Electronic book
Author Schick, Brenda S. (Brenda Sue), 1952-
Marschark, Marc.
Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth.
LC no. 2004023070
ISBN 9780198039969
0198039964
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9781423734932
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9781280428487
9780199893737
019989373X
9786610428489
6610428484
9780195176940
0195176944
1602565511
9781602565517
0195180941
9780195180947
Other Titles Sign language development