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Provine, Robert R.; Emmorey, Karen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2006
The placement of laughter in the speech of hearing individuals is not random but "punctuates" speech, occurring during pauses and at phrase boundaries where punctuation would be placed in a transcript of a conversation. For speakers, language is dominant in the competition for the vocal tract since laughter seldom interrupts spoken phrases. For…
Descriptors: Deafness, Speech, American Sign Language, Manual Communication
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Pudlas, Kenneth A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1987
The study measured hearing-impaired (N=106) students' reception of language presented via five modes: oral, aural, manual, oral-aural;, and simultaneous manual and oral. The simultaneous manual and oral and the manual modes received the highest ratings. Results are discussed in terms of theories of cognitive processing and selective attention.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Aural Learning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education