Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations
Edited by Carolina Plaza-Pust and Esperanza Morales-López
[Studies in Bilingualism, 38] 2008. xvi, 389 pp.
Carolina Plaza-Pust
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carolina Plaza-Pust plays a role.
Title
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2014 Review of Eichmann, Hansen & Heßmann (2012): Handbuch Deutsche Gebärdensprache Sign Language & Linguistics 17:2, pp. 251–258 | Review
2008 Why variation matters: On language contact in the development of L2 written German Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations, Plaza-Pust, Carolina and Esperanza Morales-López (eds.), pp. 73–135 | Article
Based on a collection of written narratives gathered in the context of a broader longitudinal investigation of the bilingual acquisition of German Sign Language (DGS) and written German by bilingually educated deaf students, the study presented in this chapter explores the main milestones in the… read more
2008 Sign bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations, Plaza-Pust, Carolina and Esperanza Morales-López (eds.), pp. 333–379 | Article
In this chapter, we adopt a cross-disciplinary perspective on sign bilingualism and explore the dynamics of its development and maintenance in the light of the insights provided in the contributions to this volume and current assumptions in the field of contact linguistics. We offer a critical… read more