WH-‐Questions in Bimodal Bilinguals: Evidence for Language ...

Study 1+2: Discussion
Sign à Speech effects
• Structures from the sign languages occasionally appear
in the children’s speech at an early age.
• These types of structures appear in special sociolinguis-c
contexts among Coda adults.
• On our approach, the language faculty makes such forms
available; children simply use such possible forms.
• What children need to learn: how and when to suppress
language synthesis forms.
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