Again, I'm not really following you. The OP was about a hearing household where the child is getting a ton of incidental exposure to speech. Furthermore, most deaf signers DO marry other deaf signers. Those that don't, tend to marry hearing fluent signers (for example, CODAs), and most of the communication in the household is still in ASL. In fact the hearing parent often makes a deliberate effort to only sign with the hearing child(ren), because otherwise they (the children) will push things towards spoken communication and lose their fluency in ASL (the same thing that tends to happen to immigrant children).
The ONLY thing I'm trying to address here is your claim that children won't acquire a language unless they're forced to "work" at it. This is counter to everything we know about language acquisition.
All of this is argument by assertion.
We have a large body of hard data on the existence of Muslim-Americans, via the US Census.
Untrue. Google it. [/quote]
Okay.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0075.pdfTechnically not of US Census origin, but they're providing it, and it still qualifies as a large body of hard data. 200,000+ interviews is pretty solid.
