Cover not available

Review published In: Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 22:2 (2019) ► pp.303–311

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
authorization required
Book review

Carolina Plaza-Pust. 2016. Bilingualism and deafness: On language contact in the bilingual acquisition of sign language and written language

Reviewed by
 | Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Published online: 10 February 2020
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00040.vil
Article outline
  • Introduction: Bilingualism in the Deaf community
  • Overview: Content of the book
  • Comments
  • Conclusion
  • References
References (13)
References
Chomsky, Noam. 1986. Knowledge of language: Its nature, origin and use. New York: Praeger.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cummins, James. 1979. Linguistic interdependence and the educational development of bilingual children. Review of Educational Research 491. 222–251. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Emmorey, Karen, Helsa B. Borinstein & Robin Thompson. 2005. Bimodal bilingualism: Code-blending between spoken English and American Sign Language. In James Cohen, Kara T. McAlister, Kellie Rolstad & Jeff MacSwan (eds.), ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, 663–673. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Geers, Ann E., Christine M. Mitchell, Andrea Warner-Czyz, Nae-Yuh Wang & Laurie S. Eisenberg. 2017. Early sign language exposure and cochlear implantation benefits. Pediatrics 140(1). e20163489. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Grosjean, François. 1992. The bilingual & the bicultural person in the hearing & in the Deaf world. Sign Language Studies 771. 307–320. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Humphries, Tom, Poornaa Kushalnagar, Gaurav Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli, Carol Padden, Christian Rathmann & Scott R. Smith. 2016. Language acquisition for deaf children: Reducing the harms of zero tolerance to the use of alternative approaches. Harm Reduction Journal 9:16.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kubus, Okan, Agnes Villwock, Jill P. Morford & Christian Rathmann. 2015. Word recognition in deaf readers: Cross-language activation of German Sign Language and German. Applied Psycholinguistics 36(4). 831–854. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mayberry, Rachel, Jen-Kai Chen, Pamela Witcher & Denise Klein. 2011. Age of acquisition effects on the functional organization of language in the adult brain. Brain & Language 1191. 16–29. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mayer, Mercer. 1969. Frog, where are you? New York: Dial Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mitchell, Ross E. & Michael A. Karchmer. 2004. Chasing the mythical ten percent: Parental hearing status of deaf and hard of hearing students in the United States. Sign Language Studies 4(2). 138–163. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Morford, Jill P., Erin Wilkinson, Agnes Villwock, Pilar Piñar & Judith F. Kroll. 2011. When deaf signers read English: Do written words activate their sign translations? Cognition 118(2). 286–292. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Otheguy, Ricardo, Ofelia García & Wallis Reid. 2015. Clarifying translanguaging and deconstructing named languages: A perspective from linguistics. Applied Linguistics Review 6(3). 281–307. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Plaza-Pust, Carolina. 2000. Linguistic theory and adult second language acquisition: On the relation between the lexicon and the syntax. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue