Sign bilingualism language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations /
This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels. Multiple aspects concerning the dynamics of contact situations involv...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
c2008.
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| Series: | Studies in bilingualism ;
v. 38. |
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| Online Access: | ebrary View fulltext via EzAccess MyiLibrary |
| Summary: | This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels. Multiple aspects concerning the dynamics of contact situations involving a signed and a spoken or a written language are covered in detail, i.e. the development of the languages in bilingual deaf children, cross-modal contact phenomena in the productions of child and adult signers, sign bilingual education concepts and practices in diverse social contexts, deaf educa. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 389 p.) : ill. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027290427 (electronic bk.) 9027290423 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0928-1533 ; |