Evaluative language in spoken and signed stories told by a deaf child with a cochlear implant: words, signs or paralinguistic expressions?

In this paper the use and quality of the evaluative language produced by a bilingual child in a story-telling situation is analysed. The subject, an 11-year-old Finnish boy, Jimmy, is bilingual in Finnish sign language (FinSL) and spoken Finnish. He was born deaf but got a cochlear implant at the...

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Main Authors: Lea Nieminen, Ritva Takkinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2011-12-01
Series:Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri
Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/15330