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Marshall, Chloe R.; Rowley, Katherine; Mason, Kathryn; Herman, Rosalind; Morgan, Gary – Journal of Child Language, 2013
We adapted the semantic fluency task into British Sign Language (BSL). In Study 1, we present data from twenty-two deaf signers aged four to fifteen. We show that the same "cognitive signatures" that characterize this task in spoken languages are also present in deaf children, for example, the semantic clustering of responses. In Study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Deafness, Children
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Morgan, Gary; Herman, Rosalind; Woll, Bencie – Journal of Child Language, 2002
This study focuses on the mapping of events onto verb-argument structures in British Sign Language (BSL). The development of complex sentences in BSL is described in a group of 30 children, aged 3;2-12;0, using data from comprehension measures and elicited sentence production. The findings support two interpretations: firstly, in the mapping of…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Children, Sentence Structure, Form Classes (Languages)