Homesigners as late learners: Connecting the dots from delayed acquisition in childhood to sign language processing in adulthood

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 525-537

  Morford, Jill P ^a   Hänel Faulhaber, Barbara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 79960961586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2011.00296.x     Document Type: Article

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