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Visual word recognition in deaf readers: lexicality is modulated by communication mode. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Evidence indicates that adequate phonological abilities are necessary to develop proficient reading skills and that later in life phonology also has a role in the covert visual word recognition of expert readers.
Laura Barca +4 more
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The Phonological Organization of Sign Languages [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2012 AbstractVisually perceivable and movable parts of the body – the hands, facial features, head, and upper body – are the articulators of sign language. It is through these articulators that words are formed, constrained, and contrasted with one another, and that prosody is conveyed.
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Phonological category resolution: a study of handshapes in younger and older sign languages
Cadernos de Saúde, 2009 The existence of a phonological system – a system of meaningless building blocks that make up meaningful words – is often considered a prerequisite for language, and the discovery that sign languages used by deaf people have a meaningless level of ...
Assaf Israel, Wendy Sandler
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Glossa, 2020 Since signs and words are perceived and produced in distinct sensory-motor systems, they do not share a phonological basis. Nevertheless, many deaf bilinguals master a spoken language with input merely based on visual cues like mouth representations of ...
Annika Herrmann +4 more
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Moving from hand to mouth: Echo phonology and the origins of language
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Although the sign languages in use today are full human languages, certain of the features they share with gestures have been suggested to provide information about possible origins of human language.
Bencie eWoll
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From iconic handshapes to grammatical contrasts: Longitudinal evidence from a child homesigner
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Many sign languages display crosslinguistic consistencies in the use of two iconic aspects of handshape, handshape type and finger group complexity.
Marie eCoppola, Diane eBrentari
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Language experience in LSF development: Behavioral evidence from a sentence repetition task.
PLoS ONE, 2020 In psycholinguistics and clinical linguistics, the Sentence Repetition Task (SRT) is known to be a valuable tool to screen general language abilities in both spoken and signed languages.
Caroline Bogliotti +2 more
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Assessing lexicalism through bimodal eyes
Glossa, 2016 The relation holding between words and syntax is at the core of a lively debate. Two competing proposals have been advanced: the lexicalist view, claiming that the lexicon and the syntax are distinct modules of the grammar, and what we shall refer to as ...
Caterina Donati, Chiara Branchini
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Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2020 Irish Sign Language uses a one-handed alphabet in which each fingerspelled letter has a unique combination of handshape, orientation, and, in a few cases, path movement.
Lorraine Leeson +5 more
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The Development and Evaluation of a New ASL Text Comprehension Task
Frontiers in Communication, 2020 Being able to comprehend a language entails not only mastery of its syntax, lexicon, or phonology, but also the ability to use language to construct meaning, draw inferences, and make connections to world knowledge. However, most available assessments of
Patrick Rosenburg +3 more
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