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Mann, Wolfgang; Sheng, Li; Morgan, Gary – Language Learning, 2016
This study compared the lexical-semantic organization skills of bilingually developing deaf children in American Sign Language (ASL) and English with those of a monolingual hearing group. A repeated meaning-association paradigm was used to assess retrieval of semantic relations in deaf 6-10-year-olds exposed to ASL from birth by their deaf…
Descriptors: Semantics, American Sign Language, Hearing (Physiology), English
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Bochner, Joseph H.; Christie, Karen; Hauser, Peter C.; Searls, J. Matt – Language Learning, 2011
Learners' ability to recognize linguistic contrasts in American Sign Language (ASL) was investigated using a paired-comparison discrimination task. Minimal pairs containing contrasts in five linguistic categories (i.e., the formational parameters of movement, handshape, orientation, and location in ASL phonology, and a category comprised of…
Descriptors: Phonology, Oral Language, Deafness, American Sign Language