Language Acquisition by Eye

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contributors v
• Contents ix
• Preface xi
• Foreword xv
• REFERENCES xvii
• Part I: EARLY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 1
• Chapter 1: The Role of Modality and Input in the Earliest Stage of Language Acqui sition 3
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 38
• REFERENCES 38
• Chapter3 The Acquisition of Natural Signed Languages: Lessons in the Nature of H uman Language and Its Biological Foundations 41
• Chapter 4: The Acquisition of First Signs 51
• Chapter 5 Principles for an Emerging Phonological System: A Case Study of Early Asl Acquisition 71
• REFERENCES 88
• Chapter 6 Early Sign Combinations in the Acquisition of Sign Language of the Netherlands: Evidence for Language-Specific Features 91
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 107
• Chapter 7 a Reexamination of "Early Exposure" and Its Implications for Language Acquisition by Eye 111
• REFERENCES 125
• Part II READING DEVELOPMENT 129
• Chapter 8: Is American Sign Language Skill Related to English Literacy? 131
• Chapter 9 a Piece of the Puzzle: Asl and Reading Comprehension in Deaf Children 143
• REFERENCES 161
• Chapter 10: American Sign Language and Reading Ability in Deaf Children 165
• Chapter 11 Creating an Involvement-Focused Style in Book Reading with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: the Visual Way1 191
• REFERENCES 217
• Chapter 12 Theorizing About the Relation Between American Sign Language and Reading 221
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 256
• REFERENCES 256
• Author Index 261
• Subject Index 269

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