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Peer reviewedTaub, Sarah; Galvan, Dennis – Sign Language Studies, 2001
Looks at patterns of conceptual encoding in American Sign Language (ASL), drawing from adults' retellings of a story. Results suggest that ASL encodes a great deal of conceptual information about motion events, significantly more than English and presumably more than most other spoken languages. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics
