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Direct linkPontecorvo, Elana; Higgins, Michael; Mora, Joshua; Lieberman, Amy M.; Pyers, Jennie; Caselli, Naomi K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether and how learning American Sign Language (ASL) is associated with spoken English skills in a sample of ASL-English bilingual deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children. Method: This cross-sectional study of vocabulary size included 56 DHH children between 8 and 60 months of age who were…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition, Interference (Language)
Reagan, Timothy – Sign Language Studies, 2021
This article offers a brief overview of historical linguistics and explores the value of historical "sign" linguistics. The specific focus of the article is on the question of the extent to which the concept of "sign language families" is a legitimate and useful one. It is suggested that although lateral transmission and…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Diachronic Linguistics, Correlation, Language Classification
Stamp, Rose; Novogrodsky, Rama; Shaban-Rabah, Sabrin – First Language, 2021
While it is common for deaf children to be bilingual in a spoken and signed language, studies often attribute any delays in language acquisition to language deprivation, rather than as a result of cross-linguistic interaction. This study compares the production of simple sentences in three languages (Palestinian Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Sentences, Semitic Languages, Sign Language
Navarrete, Eduardo; Peressotti, Francesca; Lerose, Luigi; Miozzo, Michele – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
In this study, we investigated how activation unfolds in sign production by examining whether signs that are not produced have their representations activated by semantics (cascading of activation). Deaf signers were tested with a picture-picture interference task. Participants were presented with pairs of overlapping pictures and named the green…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Sign Language, Interference (Language)
Hickey, Raymond, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2020
South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many millions of people, as well as the languages with European roots, such as Afrikaans and English, which are spoken by several millions and used by many more in daily life. This situation provides a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics
McDermid, Campbell – Sign Language Studies, 2017
A small group of interpreters was interviewed with regard to their view of learning ASL and becoming bicultural. A model of identity was then postulated based on Hegel's dialectic (Wheat 2012) of thesis (presuppositions, stereotypes, or theories about ASL and the Deaf community), antithesis (conflicting experiences), and synthesis (new…
Descriptors: English, Speech Communication, Deafness, American Sign Language
