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Download full textSisson, Cyrus R.
If various color names are printed in various color inks, an observer has great difficulty in rapidly naming the ink colors (Stroop Color Word Test) unless the color names and the ink colors are mutually reinforcing, or the color names are unknown to the observer. The latter suggests a partial measure of second-language fluency, the feasibility of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Interference (Language), Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedMarschark, Marc; Shroyer, Edgar H. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1993
This study of the automatic word and sign recognition of 66 hearing and deaf adults found that responding in sign took longer and created more Stroop interference than responding orally, independent of hearing status. Deaf subjects showed greater automaticity in recognizing signs than words, whereas hearing subjects showed greater automaticity in…
Descriptors: Adults, Deafness, Language Fluency, Predictor Variables
