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Details on "Cued Language Structure" by Earl Fleetwood and Melanie Metzger
"Eloquent...compelling." -American Annals of the Deaf, March 1999
Cued Language Structure answers the following questions:
- Why is Cued Speech neither speech nor language?
- How does cueing convey the phonology, morphology and syntax of language?
- Why doesn't cueing convey the distinctive features of speech?
- Why is speech irrelevant to naturally acquiring English?
- How is cued English both visibly and linguistically complete whereas signed English is lacking and linguistically unsound?
- Why are Deaf native cuers able to understand a message that is cued without the hand or without the mouth?
- Why should a hearing person be wary of following the often touted suggestion, "cue it the way it sounds"?
- How can cued English serve as one-half of a bilingual education program?
CUED LANGUAGE STRUCTURE answers these and other questions, grounding research findings and anecdotal claims in a linguistic perspective. It addresses the very nature of language, distinguishing the features that constitute language from the ways those features can be conveyed. [96 pages, soft cover]
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