When is a difference really different? Learners' discrimination of linguistic contrasts in American Sign Language

Language Learning

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1302-1327

  Bochner, Joseph H ^a   Christie, Karen ^a   Hauser, Peter C ^a   Searls, J Matt ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition of L2 phonology; American Sign Language; ASL phonology; Deaf formational parameters; Linguistic contrasts; Second language acquisition; Sign language

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855131670     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2011.00671.x     Document Type: Article

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