Petitto (1987) Studied Language Development in Deaf Individuals and Found

question 32

Multiple Choice

Petitto (1987) studied language development in deaf individuals and found that:

• A) language is a property of the human brain and is separate from functions of hearing and speech.
• B) children exposed to sign language from birth learn language in a similar pattern to hearing children.
• C) deaf children's use of gesture at the prelinguistic stage does not relate to use of gesture in sign language.
• D) All of these statements are true.

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