Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Congenitally deaf individuals exhibit enhanced visuospatial abilities relative to normally hearing individuals. An early example is the increased sensitivity of deaf signers to stimuli in the visual periphery (Neville and Lawson, 1987a).
Deanna L. Gagne +2 more
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Young children make their gestural communication systems more language-like : segmentation and linearization of semantic elements in motion events [PDF]
, 2014 Research on Nicaraguan Sign Language, created by deaf children, has suggested that young children use gestures to segment the semantic elements of events and linearize them in ways similar to those used in signed and spoken languages.
Clay, Zanna +3 more
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What is universal and what differs in language development? [PDF]
, 2015 Goldin-Meadow (2015) presents an exceptional synthesis of work from studies of children acquiring language under variable circumstances of input or processing abilities.
Forrester, G.S. +3 more
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Deaf and hearing children's picture naming Impact of age of acquisition and language modality on representational gesture [PDF]
, 2017 Stefanini, Bello, Caselli, Iverson, & Volterra (2009) reported that Italian 24-36 month old children use a high proportion of representational gestures to accompany their spoken responses when labelling pictures.
England, R. +5 more
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Investigating deaf children’s plural and diverse use of sign and spoken languages in a super diverse context. [PDF]
, 2016 This paper examines the meaning of plurality and diversity with respect to deaf children’s sign and spoken language exposure and repertoire within a super diverse context.
Salter, J, Swanwick, RA, Wright, S
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The Influence of the Visual Modality on Language Structure and Conventionalization: Insights From Sign Language and Gesture [PDF]
, 2015 For humans, the ability to communicate and use language is instantiated not only in the vocal modality but also in the visual modality. The main examples of this are sign languages and (co-speech) gestures.
Barsalou +31 more
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The onset and mastery of spatial language in children acquiring British Sign Language [PDF]
, 2007 In the course of language development children must solve arbitrary form-to-meaning mappings, in which semantic components are encoded onto linguistic labels.
Barriere, I. +3 more
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Deficits in narrative abilities in child British Sign Language users with specific language impairment [PDF]
, 2014 This study details the first ever investigation of narrative skills in a group of 17 deaf signing children who have been diagnosed with disorders in their British Sign Language development compared with a control group of 17 deaf child signers matched ...
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When semantics aids phonology: a processing advantage for iconic word forms in aphasia [PDF]
, 2015 Iconicity is the non-arbitrary relation between properties of a phonological form and semantic content (e.g. “moo”, “splash”). It is a common feature of both spoken and signed languages, and recent evidence shows that iconic forms confer an advantage ...
Cappa, Stefano F. +4 more
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Apes communicate about absent and displaced objects: methodology matters [PDF]
, 2013 Displaced reference is the ability to refer to an item that has been moved (displaced) in space and/or time, and has been called one of the true hallmarks of referential communication.
Bard, Kim A +6 more
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