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| Applied Psycholinguistics | 1 |
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Direct linkDiane C. Lillo-Martin; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1992
Testing of deaf readers' comprehension of relative clause structures in written English, signed English, and American Sign Language suggests that a specific syntactic disability does not differentiate good from poor deaf readers, but rather a processing deficit may underlie poor readers' comprehension difficulties. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, English, Phrase Structure
