Advances in the sign language development of deaf children
By: edited by Brenda Schick, Marc Marschark, and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer
Contributors: Schick, Brenda S. 1952-; Marschark, Marc; Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Sign language acquisition; Deaf children -- Language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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