In recent linguistic theory, there has been an explosion of detailed studies of language variation. This volume applies such recent analyses to the study of chi

This volume investigates the implications of the study of populations other than educated, middle-class, normal children and languages other than English on a u

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theore

The recent recognition of sign languages as legitimate human languages has opened up new and unique ways for both theoretical and applied psycholinguistics and

Only recently has linguistic research recognized sign languages as legitimate human languages with properties analogous to those cataloged for French or Navajo,