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Peer reviewedPoizner, Howard; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1981
Three experiments examined short-term encoding processes of deaf signers for different aspects of signs from American Sign Language. Results indicated that deaf signers code signs at one level in terms of linguistically significant formational parameters. The semantic and iconic information of signs, however, has little effect on short-term…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Higher Education, Language Patterns
