Communicating about quantity without a language model: Number devices in homesign grammar

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 1-25

  Coppola, Marie ^a   Spaepen, Elizabet ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Grammar; Homesign; Language; Number; Sign language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTURE; GRAMMAR; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOMESIGN; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MIDDLE AGED; NUMBER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIGN LANGUAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

DEVELOPMENT; GRAMMAR; HOMESIGN; LANGUAGE; NUMBER; SIGN LANGUAGE;

ADULT; CHILD; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MIDDLE AGED; SIGN LANGUAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880434077     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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