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Article: Input and Interaction in Deaf Families.(Review)
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- Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Beppie van den Bogaerde: Input and Interaction in Deaf Families. Utrecht: LOT (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics), 2000.
One of the still relatively new achievements of linguistics is the definite acceptance of deaf communication as a complete natural language, not in the acoustic but in the visual modality; it is the true native language of deaf people. Thus living in a hearing society makes them bilingual as a rule. Since it comprises both modalities, this particular type of bilingualism is sui generis, exceptional. Only recently have schools for the deaf accepted the fact that, as a consequence, deaf children have to be educated in both modalities, ...