DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES - SIGN LANGUAGE-ACQUISITION AND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES - SIGN LANGUAGE-ACQUISITION AND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1983.tb00059.x
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
NOVACK, LL
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作者:
BONVILLIAN, JD;ORLANSKY, MD;NOVACK, LL
The sign language and motor development of 11 young children of deaf parents were studied across a 16 mo. period. The subjects showed accelerated early language development producing, on the average, their 1st recognizable sign at 8.5 mo., their 10th sign at 13.2 mo. and their 1st sign combination at 17.0 mo. Children learning to speak typically do not attain the equivalent spoken language milestones until 2-3 mo. later. The structure and content of the subjects'' 50-sign vocabularies closely resembled those for children at the same stage in previously published studied of spoken language acquisition. The pattern of synchrony between motor and language development previously reported by investigators of children learning to speak did not apply to the population of the present study: most of the subjects learning to sign did not slow down in their rate of language acquisition after achieving a new motor milestone but rather continued to show a gradual increase in the size of their sign language vocabularies.