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Saunders, Emily; Quinto-Pozos, David – Second Language Research, 2023
Studies have shown that iconicity can provide a benefit to non-signers during the learning of single signs, but other aspects of signed messages that might also be beneficial have received less attention. In particular, do other features of signed languages help support comprehension of a message during the process of language learning? The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis
Aurora Martinez del Rio – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this dissertation, I examine how fingerspelled words and core signs in American Sign Language (ASL) reduce as they are repeated. This investigation is motivated by theories of language production that posit that reduction may be shaped not only by reducing articulatory effort, but also by accommodation to an interlocutor's understanding of the…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Finger Spelling, Linguistic Theory, Computational Linguistics
Blau, Shane Reuven – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Infants are born highly sensitive to the natural patterns found in languages. They use their perceptual sensitivity to acquire detailed information about the structure of languages in their environment. To date, most studies of infant perception and early language acquisition have investigated spoken/auditory languages and hearing infants (e.g.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Linguistic Input, Language Patterns, Infants
Lucas, Ceil; Bayley, Robert; Hill, Joseph C.; McCaskill, Carolyn – Sign Language Studies, 2023
Recent research has shown that a distinct variety of American Sign Language, known as Black ASL, developed in the segregated schools for deaf African Americans in the US South during the pre-civil rights era. Research has also shown that in some respects Black ASL is closer than most white varieties to the standard taught in ASL classes and found…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Sign Language, African Americans
Garberoglio, Carrie Lou; Gerasimova, Daria; Shogren, Karrie A.; Palmer, Jeffrey Levi; Johnson, Paige M.; Ryan, Claire; Pace, Jesse R.; Hicks, Tyler; Millen, Kaitlyn; Higgins, Jennifer; Cawthon, Stephanie W. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2022
Research literature and community narratives both emphasize the importance of self-determination in the lives of deaf youth. This paper describes the development, initial validation, and potential applications of a translated measure of self-determination for deaf youth, the SDI:SR ASL Translation (SDI:SR ASL). A sample of 3,309 young people who…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Deafness, American Sign Language, Student Attitudes
Fitch, Allison; Arunachalam, Sudha; Lieberman, Amy M. – Cognitive Science, 2021
Across languages, children map words to meaning with great efficiency, despite a seemingly unconstrained space of potential mappings. The literature on how children do this is primarily limited to spoken language. This leaves a gap in our understanding of sign language acquisition, because several of the hypothesized mechanisms that children use…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Acquisition, Simulation, Cues
Walton, Dawn; Borgna, Georgianna; Marschark, Marc; Crowe, Kathryn; Trussell, Jessica – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2019
The "unskilled and unaware effect" refers to the finding that individuals who are less knowledgeable or less skilled in a domain are relatively less able to evaluate their level of skill or effectively utilise feedback relative to individuals who are more skilled. Studies finding deaf students less accurate than hearing students in…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing (Physiology), Language Skills, Feedback (Response)
Clark, Brenda – Sign Language Studies, 2017
This article examines the diversity of sign language varieties used in Lima, Peru. The majority of the analysis is based on lexicostatistics, using data collected in 2014 to compare nine signers and to determine foreign influences. This technique is used to better understand the linguistic situation without the need for a large corpus of data. Two…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Variation, Comparative Analysis, Deafness
Whitney Renee Weirick – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The primary goal of this study was to explore how educational interpreter supervisors defined, experienced and approached their work in K-12 schools in the United States of America. A secondary goal was to examine how they interpreted, navigated and enacted educational and interpreting policy in their jobs as supervisors. A comparative case study…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Accountability, Professionalism, Comparative Analysis
Vercellotti, Mary Lou – Sign Language Studies, 2022
Experience with a visual-spatial language may influence certain cognitive processes (Keehner and Gathercole 2007). Spatial ability is an important cognitive skill (Linn and Petersen 1985). Some research has found that deaf signers outperform hearing nonsigners on certain spatial tasks (e.g., Emmorey, Kosslyn, and Bellugi 1993) and that hearing…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spatial Ability
Lederberg, Amy R.; Branum-Martin, Lee; Webb, Mi-young; Schick, Brenda; Antia, Shirin; Easterbrooks, Susan R.; Connor, Carol MacDonald – Grantee Submission, 2019
Better understanding of the mechanisms underlying early reading skills can lead to improved interventions. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine multivariate associations among reading, language, spoken phonological awareness, and fingerspelling abilities for three groups of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) beginning readers: those who…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Finger Spelling, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Marc David Holmes – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In 1964, Deaf and hearing stakeholders convened at Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, Indiana, to discuss the state of signed language interpreting in the United States. One topic of discussion was the competencies these interpreters should exhibit. Four decades later, Witter-Merithew and Johnson (2005) described American Sign Language…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Accreditation (Institutions), Standards, Second Language Learning
Lu, Jenny C.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Grantee Submission, 2018
In everyday communication, not only do speakers describe, but they also depict. When depicting, speakers can take on the role of other people and quote their speech or imitate their actions. In previous work, we developed a paradigm to elicit depictions in speakers. Here we apply this paradigm to signers to explore depiction in the manual…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Identification, Classification, Nonverbal Communication
Cheng, Qi; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Previous studies suggest that age of acquisition affects the outcomes of learning, especially at the morphosyntactic level. Unknown is how syntactic development is affected by increased cognitive maturity and delayed language onset. The current paper studied the early syntactic development of adolescent first language learners by examining word…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Native Language, American Sign Language, Adolescents
Moses, Annie M.; Golos, Debbie B.; Roemen, Brynn; Cregan, Gabrielle E. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2018
Children, from birth, acquire literacy within various contexts, including in early childhood educational settings. In the United States, there has been renewed attention from the public, the government and educators to increase the quality of early childhood education. Particular focus has been on settings serving children who are at risk for of…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Deafness, Hearing (Physiology), Preschool Teachers