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Liu, Hsiu Tan – Deafness & Education International, 2022
This study explores relationships between Taiwanese Sign Language (TSL) and Chinese reading comprehension with 65 deaf adults/youth (study 1: ages 14--50 years) and 27 deaf children (study 2: ages 6--13 years). Significant relationships were found between scores on two tests measuring TSL tasks. In study #1, the TSL tasks (measured by Taiwan Sign…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Chinese, Reading Comprehension, Deafness
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Schembri, Adam; Jones, Caroline; Burnham, Denis – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2005
Recent research into signed languages indicates that signs may share some properties with gesture, especially in the use of space in classifier constructions. A prediction of this proposal is that there will be similarities in the representation of motion events by sign-naive gesturers and by native signers of unrelated signed languages. This…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Verbs, Contrastive Linguistics