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Direct linkEmmorey, Karen; Thompson, Robin; Colvin, Rachael – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2009
An eye-tracking experiment investigated where deaf native signers (N = 9) and hearing beginning signers (N = 10) look while comprehending a short narrative and a spatial description in American Sign Language produced live by a fluent signer. Both groups fixated primarily on the signer's face (more than 80% of the time) but differed with respect to…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, American Sign Language, Native Speakers, Comprehension
Thompson, Robin L.; Emmorey, Karen; Kluender, Robert – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
In American Sign Language (ASL), native signers use eye gaze to mark agreement (Thompson, Emmorey and Kluender, 2006). Such agreement is unique (it is articulated with the eyes) and complex (it occurs with only two out of three verb types, and marks verbal arguments according to a noun phrase accessibility hierarchy). In a language production…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Language Universals, Deafness
