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Von Pein, Margreta; Altarriba, Jeanette – Modern Language Journal, 2011
The present study was designed to investigate the ways in which notions of semantics and phonology are acquired by adult naive learners of American Sign Language (ASL) when they are first exposed to a set of simple signs. First, a set of ASL signs was tested for nontransparency and a set of signs was selected for subsequent use. Next, a set of…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Interference (Language), American Sign Language

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