Negation, questions, and structure building in a homesign system

Cognition

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 398-416

  Franklin, Amy ^a   Giannakidou, Anastasia ^b   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Free relatives; Gesture; Home sign; Language creation; Language development; Negation; Questions; Sentence modification; Sign language; Wh forms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EMOTION; GESTURE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; LOCOMOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; CASE REPORT; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 84871536199     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.08.017     Document Type: Article

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