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The Influence of Visual Feedback and Register Changes on Sign Language Production: A Kinematic Study with Deaf Signers
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Emmorey, Karen; Gertsberg, Nelly; Korpics, Franco; Wright, Charles E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
Speakers monitor their speech output by listening to their own voice. However, signers do not look directly at their hands and cannot see their own face. We investigated the importance of a visual perceptual loop for sign language monitoring by examining whether changes in visual input alter sign production. Deaf signers produced American Sign…
Descriptors: Deafness, Vision, American Sign Language, Feedback (Response)
American Sign Language and Early Intervention
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Snoddon, Kristin – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2008
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the introduction in several countries of universal neonatal hearing screening programs has changed the landscape of education for deaf children. Due to the increasing provision of early intervention services for children identified with hearing loss, public education for deaf children often starts…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Applied Linguistics, Deafness, Foreign Countries
American Sign Language Syntactic and Narrative Comprehension in Skilled and Less Skilled Readers: Bilingual and Bimodal Evidence for the Linguistic Basis of Reading
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Chamberlain, Charlene; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
We tested the hypothesis that syntactic and narrative comprehension of a natural sign language can serve as the linguistic basis for skilled reading. Thirty-one adults who were deaf from birth and used American Sign Language (ASL) were classified as skilled or less skilled readers using an eighth-grade criterion. Proficiency with ASL syntax, and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Oral Language, Deafness, Intelligence Quotient
Investigating Deaf Students' Apologies: An Exploratory Study.
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Keenan, Susan K. – Applied Linguistics, 1993
Written apologies of deaf students were examined from data obtained from a discourse completion test. Results show that both word choice and word order give a routinized feel to the apologies, in part attributable to American Sign Language; and that strategy choices may reflect a culture-specific view of social offenses. (Contains 44 references.)…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Applied Linguistics, Cultural Context, Deafness
Lending a Helping Hand: Linguistic Input and Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children.
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Prinz, Philip M.; Masin, Louise – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Examines the effect of adult recasting in sign language on the acquisition of specific syntactic-semantic structures by deaf children aged 9 to 76 months. Results indicated that recasting triggered the acquisition of new syntactic-semantic structures in American Sign Language and English, evident in the spontaneous production of previously…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Deafness
Issues in L2: Theory as Practice/Practice as Theory. Proceedings of the Delaware Symposium on Language Studies (7th, Newark, Delaware, October 1985).
Labarca, Angela, Ed.; Bailey, Leslie M., Ed. – 1990
Papers from the symposium on applied linguistics include: "Roles in the Foreign Language Classroom" (Robert J. DiPietro); "The Importance of Native Language in Light of Second-Language Studies" (Alexander Z. Guiora); "A Model of L2 Text Reconstruction: The Recall of Literary Text by Learners of German" (Elizabeth B.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries