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Direct linkCaselli, Naomi K.; Pyers, Jennie E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Lexical iconicity--signs or words that resemble their meaning--is overrepresented in children's early vocabularies. Embodied theories of language acquisition predict that symbols are more learnable when they are grounded in a child's firsthand experiences. As such, pantomimic iconic signs, which use the signer's body to represent a body, might be…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Vocabulary Development, Lexicology, Semantics
Lieberman, Amy M.; Borovsky, Arielle; Hatrak, Marla; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Sign language comprehension requires visual attention to the linguistic signal and visual attention to referents in the surrounding world, whereas these processes are divided between the auditory and visual modalities for spoken language comprehension. Additionally, the age-onset of first language acquisition and the quality and quantity of…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Processing, Deafness, Adults
