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The purpose of this chapter is to provide evidence on the early development of deictic or “pointing” expressions in children exposed to a gestural-visual or signed language, and to compare this information with analogous information available on hearing children exposed to vocal-auditory or spoken language. This will hopefully contribute to the understanding of both universal and particular factors underlying the process of development in the signed and in the spoken modalities.
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Pizzuto, E. (1990). The Early Development of Deixis in American Sign Language: What Is the Point?. In: Volterra, V., Erting, C.J. (eds) From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children. Springer Series in Language and Communication, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74859-2_12
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