From: tgpedersen
Message: 39739
Date: 2005-08-24
>Actually the experiment has already been performed. That's how we know
> Actually, I know that they already have done some
> studies on children raised in mixed sign/speech
> households (where one parent speaks in sign, the other
> with voice) and found that the learning of signing
> starts slightly earlier than speech but is learned in
> the same way as speech, starting first with "babbling"
> and moving on to more complex hand gestures based on
> those simpler movements from the babbling stage.
>
> I'm sure there's a link to that somewhere online.
> There always is.