Should you even want to learn to sign as a parent, or can your child learn from other deaf people as well?
Scientific literature
- Kearsy Cormier, Adam Schembri, David Vinson, Eleni Orfanidou (2012), First language acquisition differs from second language acquisition in prelingually deaf signers: Evidence from sensitivity to grammaticality judgement in British Sign Language. In: Cognition, 124, 50 – 65.
- Chen Pichler (2009), Sign language development. [PDF] In: K. de Bot et al. (eds.) Language development over the life- span. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 217-241.
- Chen Pichler (2009), Sign production in first-time hearing signers: A closer look at handshape accuracy. In: Cadernos de Saúde, Número especial, Línguas gestuais, Vol 2:37-50.
- Carroll (2017), Exposure and input in bilingual development. Bilngualism: Language & Cognition, 20-1: 3-16.
