Deaf homesigners can create the foundations of phonetics and phonology without an adult linguistic model.

Cognition · 2025 · PMC13215104 · PMID 40627909

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Furthermore, mothers’ emblems had a crisp handshape more often than mothers’ deictic gestures; this comparison approached significance ( p = .052).

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