@inbook{0abba2e6e811404c9a15499863b403f1,
title = "A first study on the development of spatial viewpoint in sign language acquisition",
abstract = "The current study examines, for the first time, the viewpoint preferences of sign- ing children in expressing spatial relations that require imposing a viewpoint (left-right, front-behind). We elicited spatial descriptions from deaf children (4–9 years of age) acquiring Turkish Sign Language (T{\.I}D) natively from their deaf parents and from adult native signers of T{\.I}D. Adults produced these spatial descriptions from their own viewpoint and from that of their addressee depend- ing on whether the objects were located on the lateral or the sagittal axis. T{\.I}D- acquiring children, on the other hand, described all spatial configurations from their own viewpoint. Differences were also found between children and adults in the type of linguistic devices and how they are used to express such spatial relations.",
keywords = "sign language acquisition, viewpoint, spatial language",
author = "Beyza S{\"u}mer and Pamela Perniss and Asli {\"O}zy{\"u}rek",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1075/tilar.21.14sum",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027244116",
series = "Trends in Language Acquisition Research",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "223--240",
editor = "F.N. Ketrez and A.C. K{\"u}ntay and S. {\"O}zcaliskan and A. {\"O}zy{\"u}rek",
booktitle = "Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Ko{\c c}",
}