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Robin,<div>The study was by Laura Petitto. She showed videos of babies waving their hands to deaf mothers, who read in meaning to the gestures even though only half the babies had been exposed to any signing. Here's the reference:</div><div><div>Petitto, L.A. (1988). "Language" in the pre-linguistic child. In F.</div><div>Kessel (Ed.), <i>Developmental of Language and Language</i></div><div><i>Researchers: Essays in Honor of Roger Brown.</i>Hillsdale, N.J. :</div><div>Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 187-221.</div></div><div><div>On Feb 7, 2008, at 6:25 AM, Robin Thompson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div>Hello</div><div>I am looking for a study that may in fact not actually exist- but that I have heard people tell of anecdotally. </div><div>The story goes that sign language researchers were asked to annotate all the signs that a child/children/babies(?) produced based on videotaped data. The researchers were told that the children were native Deaf signers- but the catch was that they were in fact hearing children with no exposure to sign language. Apparently quite a few 'signs' were reported by the (unwitting) researchers.</div><div>If anyone knows of this study- and hopefully paper- or perhaps of the non-existence of this study could you let me know?</div><div>Thank you!</div><div>Robin </div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Robin Thompson, Ph.D.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Research Fellow</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">University College London</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">49 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Web: <a href="http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk">www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk</a></div><div><a href="mailto:robin.thompson@ucl.ac.uk">robin.thompson@ucl.ac.uk</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SLLING-L mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:SLLING-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SLLING-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/slling-l">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/slling-l</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>