Prelinguistic Gesture Predicts Mastery and Error in the Production of Early Signs  

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Cheek, Adrianne ; Cormier, Kearsy ; Repp, Ann ; Meier, Richard P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 77 no. 2 (2001), page 292-323.
Fulltext: Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 292-323.pdf (802.8KB)

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We explore the predictors of early mastery versus error in children's acquisition of American Sign Language. We hypothesize that the most frequent values for a particular parameter in prelin- guistic gesture will be the most frequent in early signs and the most likely sources of substitution when signing children make errors. Analyses of data from a longitudinal study of the prelinguistic gestures of five Deaf and five hearing children and a longitudinal study of four Deaf children's early signs have revealed evidence of significant commonalities between prelinguistic gesture and early sign. This apparent continuity between prelinguistic gesture and early sign reflects constraints operating on the infant-in all likelihood, motoric constraints-that seem to persist into the first-word period in both major language modalities. In sign, as in speech, the production of first signs uses building blocks that are available to the prelinguistic child.*

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