The influence of typology and modality on the acquisition of verb agreement morphology in British Sign Language

First Language

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-43

  Morgan, Gary ^a   Barrière, Isabelle ^b   Woll, Bencie ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Yeled V'Yalda Multilingual Development and Education Research Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argument structure; Deaf; Morphology; Non concatenative; Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847067784     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723706060739     Document Type: Article

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