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Lieberman, Amy M.; Borovsky, Arielle; Hatrak, Marla; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
In this reply to Salverda (2016), we address a critique of the claims made in our recent study of real-time processing of American Sign Language (ASL) signs using a novel visual world eye-tracking paradigm (Lieberman, Borovsky, Hatrak, & Mayberry, 2015). Salverda asserts that our data do not support our conclusion that native signers and…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Eye Movements, Phonology, Visual Perception
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Emmorey, Karen; Korpics, Franco; Petronio, Karen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2009
The role of visual feedback during the production of American Sign Language was investigated by comparing the size of signing space during conversations and narrative monologues for normally sighted signers, signers with tunnel vision due to Usher syndrome, and functionally blind signers. The interlocutor for all groups was a normally sighted deaf…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Feedback (Response), Visual Perception
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Hauser, Peter C.; Cohen, Julie; Dye, Matthew W. G.; Bavelier, Daphne – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2007
Visual constructive and visual-motor skills in the deaf population were investigated by comparing performance of deaf native signers (n = 20) to that of hearing nonsigners (n = 20) on the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test, Wechsler Memory Scale Visual Reproduction subtest, and…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Deafness, Sign Language, Test Validity
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Metzger, Melanie; Fleetwood, Earl; Collins, Steven D. – Sign Language Studies, 2004
In this article, the authors investigate visual and tactile ASL-English interpreters' influences on interactive discourse through an interactional sociolinguistic analysis of videotaped, interpreted interactions. They examine the participation framework of each of the interactions to determine whether the interpreters' utterances influence the…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Sociolinguistics, Videotape Recordings
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Ratner, Vivienne – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
The Test of Visual Perceptual Abilities and the Test of Spatial Perception in Sign Language were developed and administered to 682 hearing-impaired students, aged 8-18. Results showed that a significant relationship exists between visual perceptual abilities and the ability to comprehend the essential spatial components of sign language.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicap Identification