Differentiating the use of gaze in bilingual-bimodal language acquisition: A comparison of two sets of twins with deaf parents

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 321-338

  Richmond Welty, E Daylene ^b   Siple, Patricia ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SIGN LANGUAGE; TWINS;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PARENTS; SIGN LANGUAGE; TWINS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0033140291     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000999003803     Document Type: Article

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