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Krebs, Julia; Malaia, Evie; Wilbur, Ronnie B.; Roehm, Dietmar – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Nonsigners viewing sign language are sometimes able to guess the meaning of signs by relying on the overt connection between form and meaning, or iconicity (cf. Ortega, Özyürek, & Peeters, 2020; Strickland et al., 2015). One word class in sign languages that appears to be highly iconic is classifiers: verb-like signs that can refer to location…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Psycholinguistics, Verbs, Morphology (Languages)
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Emmorey, Karen; Li, Chuchu; Petrich, Jennifer; Gollan, Tamar H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
When spoken language (unimodal) bilinguals switch between languages, they must simultaneously inhibit 1 language and activate the other language. Because American Sign Language (ASL)-English (bimodal) bilinguals can switch into and out of code-blends (simultaneous production of a sign and a word), we can tease apart the cost of inhibition (turning…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Task Analysis, Second Language Learning