Mothers Do Not Drive Structure in Adult Homesign Systems: Evidence from Comprehension

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1398-1403

  Carrigan, Emily M ^a   Coppola, Marie ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

deafness; gesture; homesign; Language acquisition; language creation; Nicaragua; sign language

Indexed keywords

AUDITION;

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; DEAFNESS; DRIVE STRUCTURES; GESTURE; HOMESIGN; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE CREATION; NICARAGUA; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SIGN LANGUAGE;

TAPS;

EID: 84906332377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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