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Justyna Kotowicz; Bencie Woll; Gary Morgan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Bimodal bilingualism involves the use of a sign language and a spoken language, and offers a unique opportunity to explore the cognitive effects of growing up bilingual. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between bimodal bilingualism and executive function (EF) in hearing children who are native users of a sign language. We…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Sign Language, Native Language, Hearing (Physiology)
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Ortega, Gerardo; Sümer, Beyza; Özyürek, Asli – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Recent research on signed as well as spoken language shows that the iconic features of the target language might play a role in language development. Here, we ask further whether different types of iconic depictions modulate children's preferences for certain types of sign-referent links during vocabulary development in sign language. Results from…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Sign Language, Preferences, Age Differences
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Courtin, Cyril – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2000
The ability to attribute false beliefs by 155 deaf children (ages 5 and 8) grouped by communication mode and parental hearing status was compared to that of 39 hearing children (ages 4 to 6). Effective representational abilities were demonstrated by deaf children of deaf parents, whereas those with hearing parents appeared delayed, with…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Beliefs, Children, Cognitive Development