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[Fischer Susan]

Robin,
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:
Petitto, L.A. (1988). "Language" in the pre-linguistic child. In F.
Kessel (Ed.), Developmental of Language and Language
Researchers: Essays in Honor of Roger Brown.Hillsdale, N.J. :
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 187-221.
On Feb 7, 2008, at 6:25 AM, Robin Thompson wrote:

> Hello
> I am looking for a study that may in fact not actually exist- but  
> that I have heard people tell of anecdotally.
> 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.
> If anyone knows of this study- and hopefully paper- or perhaps of  
> the non-existence of this study could you let me know?
> Thank you!
> Robin
> Robin Thompson, Ph.D.
> Research Fellow
> Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL)
> University College London
> 49 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD
> Web: www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk
> robin.thompson at ucl.ac.uk
>
>
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