Sign Language Acquisition

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-2244-2
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 167 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 475 g

Reihe: Benjamins Current Topics

How children acquire a sign language and the stages of sign language development are extremely important topics in sign linguistics and deaf education, with studies in this field enabling assessment of an individual child’s communicative skills in comparison to others. In order to do research in this area it is important to use the right methodological tools. The contributions to this volume address issues covering the basics of doing sign acquisition research, the use of assessment tools, problems of transcription, analyzing narratives and carrying out interaction studies. It serves as an ideal reference source for any researcher or student of sign languages who is planning to do such work. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 8:1/2 (2005)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, Anne

Woll, Bencie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Zeichensprachen, Künstliche Sprachen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' preface
Anne Baker and Bencie Woll
Articles
Methods and procedures in sign language acquisition studies
Anne Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde and Bencie Woll
Review of Sign Language Assessment Instruments
Tobias Haug
Some observations on the use of HamNoSys in the context of the phonetic transcription of children's signing
Ritva Takkinen
Transcription of child sign language: A focus on narrative
Gary Morgan
Adult-child interaction in BSL nursery — getting their attention
Sandra Smith and Rachel Sutton-Spence
Code mixing in mother-child interaction in deaf families
Beppie van den Bogaerde and Anne Baker
Index