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Direct linkSehyr, Zed Sevcikova; Giezen, Marcel R.; Emmorey, Karen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2018
This study investigated the impact of language modality and age of acquisition on semantic fluency in American Sign Language (ASL) and English. Experiment 1 compared semantic fluency performance (e.g., name as many animals as possible in 1 min) for deaf native and early ASL signers and hearing monolingual English speakers. The results showed…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, English, Language Fluency, Semantics
Kushalnagar, Poorna; Hannay, H. Julia; Hernandez, Arturo E. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2010
Early deafness is thought to affect low-level sensorimotor processing such as selective attention, whereas bilingualism is thought to be strongly associated with higher order cognitive processing such as attention switching under cognitive load. This study explores the effects of bimodal-bilingualism (in American Sign Language and written English)…
Descriptors: Deafness, Attention, English, Language Acquisition
