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Woll, Bencie; Morgan, Gary – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Various theories of developmental language impairments have sought to explain these impairments in modality-specific ways--for example, that the language deficits in SLI or Down syndrome arise from impairments in auditory processing. Studies of signers with language impairments, especially those who are bilingual in a spoken language as well as a…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Language Impairments, Down Syndrome
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Emmorey, Karen; Borinstein, Helsa B.; Thompson, Robin; Gollan, Tamar H. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
Speech-sign or "bimodal" bilingualism is exceptional because distinct modalities allow for simultaneous production of two languages. We investigated the ramifications of this phenomenon for models of language production by eliciting language mixing from eleven hearing native users of American Sign Language (ASL) and English. Instead of switching…
Descriptors: Semantics, American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Oral Language