Practice question · True or false
Deaf children acquiring a signed language from signing parents reach acquisition milestones on roughly the same timetable as hearing children.
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- Consider babbling, first signs and the two-sign stage.
- Manual babbling appears at the age vocal babbling does.
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True
Why
True, including manual babbling at the age vocal babbling appears, first signs around the same time as first words, and a comparable two-unit stage. The match is one of the strongest arguments that what is being acquired is a language capacity rather than a speech capacity.
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