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Nativization, Linguistic Theory, and Deaf Language Acquisition
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 49, Winter 1985
- pp. 291-342
- 10.1353/sls.1985.0017
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The acquisition of language by deaf children of deaf parents and deaf children of hearing parents is considered in the light of such linguistic theories as Andersen’s “nativization-denativization” and Bickerton’s “bioprogram,” and found to show both support for the theories and complexities that the theories do not exactly explain.