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Donna Jo Napoli

Professor of Linguistics, Swarthmore College
Verified email at swarthmore.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Support for parents of deaf children: Common questions and informed, evidence-based answers

T Humphries, P Kushalnagar, G Mathur… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
To assist medical and hearing-science professionals in supporting parents of deaf children,
we have identified common questions that parents may have and provide evidence-based …

Language choices for deaf infants: Advice for parents regarding sign languages

T Humphries, P Kushalnagar, G Mathur… - Clinical …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
514 Clinical Pediatrics 55 (6) before a child can communicate with language in either
modality. As a child participates in accessible language communication, the child begins to …

[HTML][HTML] Language acquisition for deaf children: Reducing the harms of zero tolerance to the use of alternative approaches

T Humphries, P Kushalnagar, G Mathur… - Harm Reduction …, 2012 - Springer
Children acquire language without instruction as long as they are regularly and
meaningfully engaged with an accessible human language. Today, 80% of children born …

[BOOK][B] Predication theory: a case study for indexing theory

DJ Napoli - 1989 - books.google.com
Napoli's study takes a refreshing look at the notions of argument and predicate. Recent
discussions of predication with Government and Binding theory stress the configurational …

Definites in there-sentences

E Rando, DJ Napoli - Language, 1978 - JSTOR
There-sentences in English fall into two types: EXISTENTIAL and LIST.'Existential'there-
sentences typically allow only indefinite NP arguments, while'list'there-sentences accept …

Should all deaf children learn sign language?

DJ Napoli, NK Mellon, JK Niparko, C Rathmann… - …, 2015 - publications.aap.org
Every year, 10 000 infants are born in the United States with sensorineural deafness. Deaf
children of hearing (and nonsigning) parents are unique among all children in the world in …

Secondary resultative predicates in Italian1

DJ Napoli - Journal of Linguistics, 1992 - cambridge.org
English exhibits PP, AP and NP resultative secondary predicates (SPs). Italian freely exhibits
PP resultatives and, less commonly, AP resultatives. This difference follows from two facts …

Infants and children with hearing loss need early language access

P Kushalnagar, G Mathur… - The Journal of …, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
Around 96 percent of children with hearing loss are born to parents with intact hearing, who
may initially know little about deafness or sign language. Therefore, such parents will need …

Ensuring language acquisition for deaf children: What linguists can do

T Humphries, P Kushalnagar, G Mathur, DJ Napoli… - Language, 2014 - muse.jhu.edu
Parents of small deaf children need guidance on constructing home and school
environments that affect normal language acquisition. They often turn to physicians and …

Comparative ellipsis: A phrase structure analysis

DJ Napoli - Linguistic Inquiry, 1983 - JSTOR
At least three rules have been taken to operate in comparatives: Comparative Deletion (CD),
an obligatory rule that deletes the entire compared constituent under identity with the head …