Comparisons of Children Acquiring Sign Language and Speech Suggest That

question 2

Multiple Choice

Comparisons of children acquiring sign language and speech suggest that:

• A) manual babbling was far more common in deaf than in hearing infants
• B) early multisign utterances use semantic relations not found in English
• C) hearing children acquire their first words slightly earlier than deaf children acquired their first sign
• D) deaf infants gestures could not be characterized as babbling

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