Language and Deafness

abilities acquired American Sign Language analysis approaches argued aspects assessment auditory behaviors bilingual chapter child language cognitive development communication comprehension cued speech deaf and hearing deaf children deaf individuals deaf parents deaf students deaf subjects development of deaf developmental discussed example factors finger spelling functions grammar hearing impairment hearing-impaired indicated inferencing inflectional instruction interaction investigators knowledge Kretschmer language acquisition language of deaf language samples learning linguistic major manual communication manually coded English meaning memory methods Montanelli morphemes nouns oral English performance phonological pidgin sign English pragmatic prelingually deaf present problems procedures production programs psycholinguistic Quigley recoding reported Schlesinger scores second language semantic sentences similar speech coding spoken language stage standard English Steinkamp studies syntactic structures syntax T-unit tasks teachers teaching theory various verb Villiers visual vocabulary Wilbur words written language