Contents	14
	Contributors	16
	1 Understanding Sign Language Development of Deaf Children	20
	2 Issues of Linguistic Typology in the Study of Sign Language Development of Deaf Children	37
	3 The Development of Gesture in Hearing and Deaf Children	63
	4 Patterns and Effects of Language Input to Deaf Infants and Toddlers From Deaf and Hearing Mothers	88
	5 Acquiring a Visually Motivated Language: Evidence From Diverse Learners	119
	6 Lexical Development of Deaf Children Acquiring Signed Languages	152
	7 Deaf Children Are Verb Attenders: Early Sign Vocabulary Development in Dutch Toddlers	178
	8 Learning to Fingerspell Twice: Young Signing Children’s Acquisition of Fingerspelling	206
	9 The Form of Early Signs: Explaining Signing Children’s Articulatory Development	219
	10 Acquisition of Syntax in Signed Languages	248
	11 How Faces Come to Serve Grammar: The Development of Nonmanual Morphology in American Sign Language	279
	12 Deaf Children’s Acquisition of Modal Terms	308
	13 The Development of Narrative Skills in British Sign Language	331
	14 Natural Signed Language Acquisition Within the Social Context of the Classroom	361
	Author Index	394
	A	394
	B	394
	C	395
	D	395
	E	395
	F	395
	G	396
	H	396
	I	396
	J	396
	K	396
	L	396
	M	397
	N	397
	O	397
	P	397
	Q	398
	R	398
	S	398
	T	398
	V	398
	W	398
	Y	399
	Subject Index	400
	A	400
	B	401
	C	401
	D	402
	E	403
	F	403
	G	404
	H	404
	I	404
	J	405
	K	405
	L	405
	M	406
	N	407
	O	407
	P	407
	Q	408
	R	408
	S	409
	T	411
	U	411
	V	411
	W	412
	Y	412
	Z	412
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