Brenda Schick, Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer

Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The use of sign language has a long history. Indeed, humans' first languages may have been expressed through sign. Sign languages have been found around the world, even in communities without access to formal education. In addition to serving as a primary means of communication for Deaf communities, sign languages have become one of hearing students' most popular choices for second-language study. Sign languages are now accepted as complex and complete languages that are the linguistic equals of spoken languages. Sign-language research is a relatively young field, having begun fewer than 50 years ago. Since then, interest in the field has blossomed and research has become much more rigorous as demand for empirically verifiable results have increased. In the same way that cross-linguistic research has led to a better understanding of how language affects development, cross-modal research has led to a better understanding of how language is acquired. It has also provided valuable evidence on the cognitive and social development of both deaf and hearing children, excellent theoretical insights into how the human brain acquires and structures sign and spoken languages, and important information on how to promote the development of deaf children. This volume brings together the leading scholars on the acquisition and development of sign languages to present the latest theory and research on these topics. They address theoretical as well as applied questions and provide cogent summaries of what is known about early gestural development, interactive processes adapted to visual communication, linguisic structures, modality effects, and semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic development in sign. Along with its companion volume, Advances in the Spoken Language Development of Deaf and Hard-of Hearing Children, this book will provide a deep and broad picture about what is known about deaf children's language development in a variety of situations and contexts. From this base of information, progress in research and its application will accelerate, and barriers to deaf children's full participation in the world around them will continue to be overcome.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198039969
• Artikelnr.: 38138968

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Marc Marschark, Brenda Schick, and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer:
Understanding Sign Language Development of Deaf Children
* 2: Dan I. Slobin: Issues of Linguistic Typology in the Study of Sign
Language Development of Deaf Children
* 3: V. Volterra, J.M. Iverson, and M. Castrataro: The Development of
Gesture in Hearing and Deaf Children
* 4: Patricia E. Spencer and Margaret Harris: Patterns and Effects of
Language Input to Deaf Infants and Toddlers from Deaf and Hearing
Mothers
* 5: Brenda Schick: Acquiring a Visually-Motivated Language: Evidence
from Diverse Learners
* 6: Diane Anderson: Lexical Development of Deaf Children Acquiring
Signed Languages
* 7: Nini Hoiting: Deaf Children Are Verb Attenders: Early Sign
Vocabulary Development in Dutch Toddlers
* 8: Carol A. Padden: Learning to Fingerspell Twice: Young Signing
Children's Acquisition of Fingerspelling
* 9: Richard P. Meier: The Form of Early Signs: Explaining Signing
Children's Articulatory Development
* 10: Diane Lillo-Martin and Deborah Chen Pichler: Acquisition of
Syntax in Signed Languages
* 11: Judy Reilly: How Faces Come To Serve Grammar: The Development of
NonManual Morphology in American Sign Language
* 12: Barbara Shaffer: Deaf Children's Acquisition of Modal Terms
* 13: Gary Morgan: The Development of Narrative Skills in British Sign
Language
* 14: Jenny L. Singleton and Dianne D. Morgan: Natural Signed Language
Acquisition within the Social Context of the Classroom