Grammatical Subjects in home sign: Abstract linguistic structure in adult primary gesture systems without linguistic input

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 52, 2005, Pages 19249-19253

  Coppola, Marie ^a   Newport, Elissa L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Language acquisition; Sign language; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GESTURE; GRAMMAR; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; NICARAGUA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICATION METHODS, TOTAL; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MANUAL COMMUNICATION; NICARAGUA; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 30044440856     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0509306102     Document Type: Article

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