Widening the Lens on Language Learning: Language Creation in Deaf Children and Adults in Nicaragua: Commentary on Senghas

Overview

Journal Hum Dev

Publisher Karger

Specialties Physiology
Psychology

Date 2012 Apr 6

PMID 22476199

Citations 8

Authors

Susan Goldin-Meadow

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