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Títol: The onset and mastery of spatial language in children acquiring British Sign Language
Autoria: Morgan, Gary  
Herman, Ros  
Barriere, Isabelle  
Woll, Bencie  
Citació: Morgan, G. [Gary], Herman, R. [Ros], Barriere, I. [Isabelle], & Woll, B. [Bencie]. (2008). The onset and mastery of spatial language in children acquiring British Sign Language. Cognitive Development, 23(1), 1-19. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.09.003
Resum: In the course of language development children must solve arbitrary form-to-meaning mappings, in which semantic components are encoded onto linguistic labels. Because sign languages describe motion and location of entities through iconic movements and placement of the hands in space, child signers may find spatial semantics-to-language mapping easier to learn than child speakers. This hypothesis was tested in two studies: a longitudinal analysis of a native signing child's use of British Sign Language to describe motion and location events between the ages 1–10 and 3–0, and performance of 18 native signing children between the ages of 3–0 and 4–11 on a motion and location sentence comprehension task. The results from both studies argue against a developmental advantage for sign language learners for the acquisition of motion and location forms. Early forms point towards gesture and embodied actions followed by protracted mastery of the use of signs in representational space. The understanding of relative spatial relations continues to be difficult, despite the iconicity of these forms in the language, beyond 5 years of age.
Paraules clau: language developmen
sign language
gesture
classifiers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.09.003
Tipus de document: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Versió del document: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Data de publicació: 2008
Llicència de publicació: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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