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Tomaszewski, Piotr; Ezlakowski, Wiktor – Sign Language Studies, 2021
The following article looks into the question of negative affixation in Polish Sign Language. Until today only one negative prefix and one negative suffix were recognized in Polish Sign Language. Our research investigates farther these two affixes looking into their etymologies, constraints and new examples of their use. The negative prefix…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Morphemes, Nonverbal Communication, Foreign Countries
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Ergin, Rabia; Meir, Irit; Ilkbasaran, Deniz; Padden, Carol; Jackendoff, Ray – Sign Language Studies, 2018
One of the fundamental issues for a language is its capacity to express argument structure unambiguously. This study presents evidence for the emergence and the incremental development of these basic mechanisms in a newly developing language, Central Taurus Sign Language. Our analyses identify universal patterns in both the emergence and…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Research, Language Patterns, Language Universals
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Vintar, Špela – Sign Language Studies, 2015
Slovene Sign Language (SZJ) has as yet received little attention from linguists. This article presents some basic facts about SZJ, its history, current status, and a description of the Slovene Sign Language Corpus and Pilot Grammar (SIGNOR) project, which compiled and annotated a representative corpus of SZJ. Finally, selected quantitative data…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Computational Linguistics, Semantics, Statistical Analysis
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Reilly, Jamie; Hung, Jinyi; Westbury, Chris – Cognitive Science, 2017
Arbitrary symbolism is a linguistic doctrine that predicts an orthogonal relationship between word forms and their corresponding meanings. Recent corpora analyses have demonstrated violations of arbitrary symbolism with respect to concreteness, a variable characterizing the sensorimotor salience of a word. In addition to qualitative semantic…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Semantics, Word Recognition, Auditory Perception
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Morford, Jill P.; Kroll, Judith F.; Piñar, Pilar; Wilkinson, Erin – Second Language Research, 2014
Recent evidence demonstrates that American Sign Language (ASL) signs are active during print word recognition in deaf bilinguals who are highly proficient in both ASL and English. In the present study, we investigate whether signs are active during print word recognition in two groups of unbalanced bilinguals: deaf ASL-dominant and hearing…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, American Sign Language, Word Recognition, Deafness
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Von Pein, Margreta; Altarriba, Jeanette – Modern Language Journal, 2011
The present study was designed to investigate the ways in which notions of semantics and phonology are acquired by adult naive learners of American Sign Language (ASL) when they are first exposed to a set of simple signs. First, a set of ASL signs was tested for nontransparency and a set of signs was selected for subsequent use. Next, a set of…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Interference (Language), American Sign Language
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Fuks, Orit; Tobin, Yishai – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
The purpose of the present research is to examine which of the two factors: (1) the iconic-semiotic factor; or (2) the human-phonetic factor is more relevant in explaining the appearance and distribution of the hand shape B-bent in Israeli Sign Language (ISL). The B-bent shape has been the subject of much attention in sign language research…
Descriptors: Language Research, Phonetics, Phonemics, Sign Language
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Emmorey, Karen; Borinstein, Helsa B.; Thompson, Robin; Gollan, Tamar H. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
Speech-sign or "bimodal" bilingualism is exceptional because distinct modalities allow for simultaneous production of two languages. We investigated the ramifications of this phenomenon for models of language production by eliciting language mixing from eleven hearing native users of American Sign Language (ASL) and English. Instead of switching…
Descriptors: Semantics, American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Oral Language
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Wilbur, Ronnie B.; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1985
Presents a list of classifiers in American Sign Language and describes a study of their semantic characteristics. Classifiers are defined as certain hand shapes in particular orientations that stand for certain semantic features of noun arguments and which may substitute for particular nouns in various semantic environments, thereby functioning as…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Classification, Deafness, Language Research
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Layton, Thomas L.; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Reports on research into the early semantic-syntactic utterances of deaf children as compared to those of learning children. It is suggested that differences in acquisition patterns may be attributable to the pedagogical nature of deaf language acquisition. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Handicapped Children, Language Acquisition
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Massone, Maria Ignacia; Curiel, Monica – Sign Language Studies, 2004
This article focuses on word order - the order of constituents in the sentence - as one way in which languages establish the relationship between a verb and its arguments. The spoken languages of the world have been classified into three, major word-order types: SVO, VSO, and SOV. Greenberg' work (1963) on language typology has been a stimulus to…
Descriptors: Semantics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Sentence Structure, Language Research
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Robinson, Jacques H.; Griffith, Penny L. – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Explores the operational and conceptual meanings of the iconicity of manual signs and sign languages. Empirical studies related to the operational definition of iconicity in American Sign Language are described, and implications of parallels between iconicity and "stimulus meaningfulness" are discussed in relation to the scientific…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Literature Reviews
Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – 1979
This research focused on the initial stage of language development of a hearing child who was acquiring simultaneously both spoken English and American Sign Language (ASL). The report covers the first phase of the longitudinal research on the child's linguistic development, focusing on early word meanings. The data were collected from the time…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, Concept Formation
Terrace, Herbert S. – New York University Education Quarterly, 1979
Focusing on the question, "Can chimpanzees produce new sentences or merely sequences?" Terrace describes his efforts to teach the chimpanzee Nim to communicate through sign language. From his results, and the Gardners' experiments with Washoe, he concludes that no proof yet exists that chimpanzees can use language as humans do. (SJL)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Child Language, Language Patterns, Language Research
Lillo-Martin, Diane; And Others – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
In an examination of the acquisition of the spatial syntax of American Sign Language (ASL), 43 children aged 3-10 years were given a range of comprehension and elicitation tests designed to analyze the subsystems involved in the corrrect use of ASL syntax. The subsystems were nominal establishment, verb agreement, and consistency of reference. The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Children, Comprehension
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