The First Signs of Language: Phonological Development in British Sign Language

Autor/inn/en	Morgan, Gary; Barrett-Jones, Sarah; Stoneham, Helen
Titel	The First Signs of Language: Phonological Development in British Sign Language
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 28 (2007) 1, S.3-22 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S0142716407070014
Schlagwörter	Toddlers; Young Children; Phonology; Sign Language; Oral Language; Deafness; Language Acquisition; Foreign Countries; Parent Child Relationship; Interaction; Mothers; Error Patterns; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Frühe Kindheit; Fonologie; Gebärdensprache; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Ausland; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Interaktion; Mother; Mutter; Fehlertyp; Großbritannien
Abstract	A total of 1,018 signs in one deaf child's naturalistic interaction with her deaf mother, between the ages of 19 and 24 months were analyzed. This study summarizes regular modification processes in the phonology of the child sign's handshape, location, movement, and prosody. First, changes to signs were explained by the notion of phonological markedness. Second, the child managed her production of first signs through two universal processes: structural change and substitution. Constraints unique to the visual modality also caused sign language-specific acquisition patterns, namely, more errors for handshape articulation in locations in peripheral vision, a high frequency of whole sign repetitions and feature group rather than one-to-one phoneme substitutions as in spoken language development. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10