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Direct linkSo, Wing Chee; Coppola, Marie; Licciardello, Vincent; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Cognitive Science, 2005
Sign languages modulate the production of signs in space and use this spatial modulation to refer back to entities--to maintain coreference. We ask here whether spatial modulation is so fundamental to language in the manual modality that it will be invented by individuals asked to create gestures on the spot. English speakers were asked to…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Grammar, Manual Communication, Sign Language
Peer reviewedGoldin-Meadow, Susan; Mylander, Carolyn – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Spontaneous gestures of a deaf child unexposed to sign language were studied to determine whether regularities existing within gestures were akin to morphological structure. The child's gestures, handshape/motion combinations forming a matrix for communication, suggest that structural regularity at the intraword level is a resilient property of…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Manual Communication
