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Direct linkHamilton, Harley – Sign Language Studies, 2017
This article investigates the sequential recall of manual alphabet letters by signing deaf adolescents under two presentation conditions: fingerspelling and the listing and ordering technique (LOT) of American Sign Language. Fingerspelling presents each letter in a manner similar to the spelling of spoken words: A letter is produced and then is no…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Recall (Psychology), American Sign Language, Alphabets
Allen, Thomas E. – Sign Language Studies, 2015
This article reports on a correlational study of language and home factors and their role in fostering the development of alphabetic knowledge among a national sample of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old deaf children. A structural equation model was constructed and tested in an examination of the combined impacts of student age, finger-spelling ability, and…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Finger Spelling, Family Environment, Interpersonal Communication
Whitworth, Cecily – Sign Language Studies, 2011
This article argues for the necessity of phonetic analysis in signed language linguistics and presents a case study of one analytical system being used in a preliminary attempt to identify natural classes and investigate variation in ASL handshapes. Robbin Battison (1978) first described what is now a widely accepted list of basic handshapes,…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonemes, Deafness, Phonetic Analysis
Peer reviewedPadden, Carol A.; Gunsauls, Darline Clark – Sign Language Studies, 2003
This historical account of the development of the manual alphabet in American Sign Language traces fingerspelling back to the monks of the seventh century, who devised a system for representing speech without needing to speak. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Diachronic Linguistics, Letters (Alphabet)
Peer reviewedBonvillian, John; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1988
A young child's acquisition of language and language-related skills in two modalities is discussed. The hearing daughter of a deaf father and of a hearing mother showed accelerated language development in both sign and speech. Reading readiness tests administered at 27 and 32 months revealed advanced development for her age. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Finger Spelling
