This pack encourages the reader to consider the young child's signed language acquisition and subsequent reading development. It proposes that theories of language acquisition and reading development must account for signed languages to understand the universal, the modality-specific, and the language-specific characteristics of language acquisition and the learning mechanisms that account for reading. Theories of language acquisition and reading have traditionally been derived from studies of spoken language and unintentionally excluded signed languages. This produces theoretical principles based on the psycholinguistic mechanisms related to hearing and the articulation of speech, principles that do not necessarily apply to seeing and the gesticulation of signs. By presenting a new set of signed language studies for consideration, this book advances language, research and theory. Language Acquisition by Eye is written in two parts, anchored in the toddler phase and the school-pupil phase. The development path between these two phases trace out the routes that deaf children follow from one to the other. Many critical landmarks occur along the way - achievements of morphological, syntactic and pragmatic master - all in the framework of the oral-visual modality and the special typological characteristics of sign language. Part 1 deals with the role of hand and eye in the signing of mothers and the perception and early acquisition of such signs by their babies. Part 2 takes us ahead to the time when signing children are faced with the task of acquiring another visual symbolic system - that is, the mastery of literacy in the national language of the country. In all, this book is part of a continuing international endeavour to more deeply understand the structure and functions of sign language, as well as the processing connections between the signed language and the spoken language with which it corresponds.
By:
Susan M. Gass,
Antonella Sorace,
Larry Selinker
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd
Dimensions:
Height: 280mm,
Width: 210mm,
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9780805833676
ISBN 10: 0805833676
Pages: 126
Publication Date: 01 December 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
,
Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Undefined
Publisher's Status: Active
Part 1 Early Language Acquisition: The Role of Modality and Input in the Earliest Stages of Language Acquisition - Studies of Japanese Sign Language, N. Masataka; Child-Directed Signing in American Sign Language, A.S. Holzrichter and R.P. Meier; The Acquisition of Natural Signed Languages - Lessons in the Nature of Human Language and its Biological Foundations, L. Petitto; The Acquisition of First Signs - Place, Handshape and Movement, K.E. Conlin et al; Principles for an Emerging Phonological System - a Case Study of Early ASL Acquisition, P.F. Marentette and R.I. Mayberry; Early Sign Combinations in the Acquisition of Sign Language of the Netherlands - Evidence for Language-Specific Features, J.A. Coerts; A Reexamiantion of Early Exposure and its Implications for Language Acquisition by Eye, J.P. Morford and R.I. Mayberry. Part 2 Reading Development: Is American Sign Language Skill Related to English Literacy?, M. Strong and P. Prinz; A Piece of the Puzzle - ASL and Reading Comprehension in Deaf Children, R.J. Hoffmeister; American Sign Language and Reading Ability in Deaf Children, C. Padden; Creating an Involvement-Focused Style in Book Reading With Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students - the Visual Way, S.M. Mather and A. Thibeault; Theorizing About the Relationship Between ASL and Reading, C. Chamberlain and R.I. Mayberry.
