Watching language grow in the manual modality: Nominals, predicates, and handshapes

Cognition

Volumn 136, Issue , 2015, Pages 381-395

  Goldin Meadow, S ^a   Brentari, D ^a   Coppola, M ^b   Horton, L ^a   Senghas, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Classifiers; Handshape; Homesign; Morphology; Nicaraguan sign language; Sign language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTURE; GRAMMAR; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDSHAPE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOMESIGN; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NICARAGUAN SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGN LANGUAGE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSON; LEARNING; NICARAGUA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NICARAGUA; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; SIGN LANGUAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920262332     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.029     Document Type: Article

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