title: [What bimodal bilingual have to say about bilingual developing?]
abstract: The goal of this work is to present what our research with hearing children from Deaf parents, acquiring Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and Portuguese, and American Sign Language (ASL) and English (Lillo-Martin et. al. 2010) have to say about bilingual development. The data analyzed in this study is part of the database of spontaneous interactions collected longitudinally, alternating contexts of sign and spoken languages. Moreover, there is data from experimental studies with tests in both pairs of languages that is incorporated to the present study. A general view about previous studies related to bimodal bilingual acquisition with hearing children, from "deaf" parents, will be presented. Then, we will show some linguistics aspects of this kind of acquisition found in our study and discuss about bilingual acquisition.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Florianópolis - Santa Catariana - Brasil.
authors.forename: Ronice Müller
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: de Quadros
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut - Connecticut - Estados Unidos da América.
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lillo-Martin
authors.affiliation: Gallaudet University - Washington - Estados Unidos da América.
authors.forename: Deborah Chen
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Pichler