Advances in the sign language development of deaf children

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: NetLibrary, Inc.
Group Author: (Brenda Sue), 1952-; Marschark Marc.; Spencer Patricia Elizabeth.; Schick Brenda S.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford New York
Publication Dates: 2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Perspectives on deafness
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Online Access: http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=143339
Carrier Form: xvi, 395 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780198039969 (electronic bk.)
1423734939 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: H026
CLC: H026.3
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.