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Emmorey, Karen; McCullough, Stephen; Mehta, Sonya; Ponto, Laura L. B.; Grabowski, Thomas J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
We investigated the functional organisation of neural systems supporting language production when the primary language articulators are also used for meaningful, but nonlinguistic, expression such as pantomime. Fourteen hearing nonsigners and 10 deaf native users of American Sign Language (ASL) participated in an H[subscript 2][superscript…
Descriptors: Pantomime, Verbs, Deafness, American Sign Language
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Boudreault, Patrick; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
Sentence processing in American Sign Language (ASL) was investigated as a function of age of first language acquisition with a timed grammatical judgement task. Participants were 30 adults who were born deaf and first exposed to a fully perceptible language between the ages of birth and 13 years. Stimuli were grammatical and ungrammatical examples…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Processing, Adults, Deafness