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Peer reviewedJohnston, Trevor – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2001
Re-examination of data on noun-verb pair comprehension and production in Australian and American Sign Language confirm the existence of formationally related noun-verb pairs in Auslan in which the verb displays a single movement and the noun displays a repeated movement. Overall, the derivational process appears closely linked to an iconic base…
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Children, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedCorina, David P.; McBurney, Susan L. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2001
Studies of American Sign language including functional magnetic resonance imaging of deaf signers confirms the importance of left hemisphere structures in signed language, but also the contributions of right hemisphere regions to sign language processing. A case study involving cortical stimulation mapping in a deaf signer provides evidence for…
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Case Studies
