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Bilingualism and Deafness. On Language Contact in the Bilingual Acquisition o…
This book examines sociolinguistic, educational and psycholinguistic factors that shape the path to sign bilingualism in deaf individuals and contributes to a better understanding of the specific characteristics of a type of bilingualism that is neither territorial nor commonly the result of parent-to-child transmission
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What the Hands Reveal about the Brain
What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech, that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived front spoken languages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Being and Hearing : Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu
How do deaf people in different societies perceive and conceive the world around them? Drawing on four years of anthropological fieldwork in Nepali deaf communities, Being and Hearing shows how questions of cultural difference are profoundly shaped by local habits of perception. Beginning with the premise that philosophy and cultural intuition are separated only by genre and pedigree, Peter Gra…
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- 978-0-9991570-3-9
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- 305.908 2 GRA b
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