Young children who are deaf, and cannot hear the spoken language in their environment, and who also are not exposed to accessible linguistic input or medical intervention, nonetheless generate productive manual systems to communicate with their hearing family and friends (Goldin-Meadow 2003,Fusellier-Souza 2006). These novel manual communication systems, sometimes referred to as homesign systems, are idiosyncratic to their particular individual child innovator.
Representational strategies in shared homesign systems from Nebaj, Guatemala
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