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Gulamani, Sannah; Marshall, Chloë; Morgan, Gary – Second Language Research, 2022
Little is known about how hearing adults learn sign languages. Our objective in this study was to investigate how learners of British Sign Language (BSL) produce narratives, and we focused in particular on viewpoint-taking. Twenty-three intermediate-level learners of BSL and 10 deaf native/early signers produced a narrative in BSL using the…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Perspective Taking, Second Language Learning, Deafness
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Ortega, Gerardo; Morgan, Gary – Second Language Research, 2015
There is growing interest in learners' cognitive capacities to process a second language (L2) at first exposure to the target language. Evidence suggests that L2 learners are capable of processing novel words by exploiting phonological information from their first language (L1). Hearing adult learners of a sign language, however, cannot fall back…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Input, Language Research, Native Language