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Slonimska, Anita; Özyürek, Asli; Capirci, Olga – Cognitive Science, 2022
Sign languages use multiple articulators and iconicity in the visual modality which allow linguistic units to be organized not only linearly but also simultaneously. Recent research has shown that users of an established sign language such as LIS (Italian Sign Language) use simultaneous and iconic constructions as a modality-specific resource to…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication
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di Lucca, Lucia; Masiero, Giovanna; Pallotti, Gabriele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
This paper reports on a longitudinal ethnographic study of the language socialisation of a group of Moroccan adolescents who migrated to Italy in the late 1990s. The approach is based on the notion of language socialisation, which sees the process of acquiring a language as linked to that of becoming a member of a culture. The participants live in…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Language Patterns, Municipalities, Cultural Awareness