Comparisons of children acquiring sign language and speech suggest that:
A) manual babbling was far more common in deaf than in hearing infants
B) early multisign utterances use semantic relations not found in English
C) hearing children acquire their first words slightly earlier than deaf children acquired their first sign
D) deaf infants gestures could not be characterized as babbling

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Deaf infants exposed to sign language often exhibit manual babbling, which is similar to vocal babbling in hearing infants, indicating that manual babbling is more common in deaf infants.

Comparisons of Children Acquiring Sign Language and Speech Suggest That