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Over the last ten years or so there has been a steady increase in studies of sign language development in deaf children: the majority of these being concerned with the development of American Sign Language (ASL; see Newport and Meier, 1985; Meier and Newport, 1990, for useful reviews). The recognition of sign languages such as ASL and British Sign Language (BSL) as full natural languages has led to an interest in the ways in which language development in the visual/gestural modality resembles the development of spoken language, and the ways in which it differs. The study of such similarities and differences may help to distinguish those factors and processes which are essential to the child’s development, regardless of modality, from those which are modality specific.
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Clibbens, J., Harris, M. (1993). Phonological Processes and Sign Language Development. In: Messer, D.J., Turner, G.J. (eds) Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22608-5_10
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