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Samantha Rarrick – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
HSL and SSSL are two endangered sign languages of Hawai'i and Papua New Guinea, respectively. Mouthings of spoken words in signing, especially in smaller sign languages, is a growing topic in sign language linguistics. Here, I present an analysis of mouthings in HSL and SSSL. Mouthings in these languages may present patterns that are previously…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Human Body, Nonverbal Communication
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Ortega, Gerardo; Morgan, Gary – Second Language Research, 2015
There is growing interest in learners' cognitive capacities to process a second language (L2) at first exposure to the target language. Evidence suggests that L2 learners are capable of processing novel words by exploiting phonological information from their first language (L1). Hearing adult learners of a sign language, however, cannot fall back…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Input, Language Research, Native Language