'Children are just lingual': The development of phonology in British Sign Language (BSL)

Lingua

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1507-1523

  Morgan, Gary ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Phonology; Sign language

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748756790     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2005.07.010     Document Type: Article

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