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Peer reviewedSiple, Patricia; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1982
The role of sensory attributes in a vocabulary learning task was investigated for a non-oral language using deaf and hearing individuals, more or less skilled in the use of sign language. Skilled signers encoded invented signs in terms of linguistic structure rather than as visual-pictorial events. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Deafness, Error Analysis (Language)
Peer reviewedEmmorey, Karen – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Discusses two experiments investigating non-antecedent suppression in American Sign Language (ASL). Findings indicate that spoken and signed languages use the same processing mechanisms in resolving co-reference relations. Results also indicate that within the probe recognition paradigm, the spatial indexing of ASL pronouns is similar to gender…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, English, Error Analysis (Language)
