Development of sign-based perception by deaf children.
In this study the sign-based perceptual abilities of 59 deaf children are investigated. Like many hearing speaking children, deaf signing children appear to perceive isolated lexical items based on the formational parameters of those items. Also, deaf signers show trends similar to those exhibited by hearing speakers for the development of the perceptual ability necessary to distinguish between minimal pairs within their respective language systems.
D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008369:Manual Communication; D010700:Phonetics; D012660:Semantics; D012813:Sign Language