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Slonimska, Anita; Özyürek, Asli; Capirci, Olga – Cognitive Science, 2022
Sign languages use multiple articulators and iconicity in the visual modality which allow linguistic units to be organized not only linearly but also simultaneously. Recent research has shown that users of an established sign language such as LIS (Italian Sign Language) use simultaneous and iconic constructions as a modality-specific resource to…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication
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Alyeksyeyeva, Iryna; Chaiuk, Tetyana; Kovalchuk, Iryna; Galitska, Elizaveta – Arab World English Journal, 2022
The study is aimed at exploring Master's students' sense-making of various second language (L2) texts and its correlation with interpretation depth and the students' intercultural competence. The significance of this research lies in the fact that it provides an insight on culture-specific issues challenging for advanced and proficient Ukrainian…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Scroggs, Carolyn L. – Sign Language Studies, 1981
Analysis of the communicative skills of a nine-year-old deaf boy with minimal schooling showed pantomiming and gestures to be his major mode of communication. Certain semantic patterns prevailed. Use of left or right hand also had semantic correlates. Formal and idiosynacratic signs were discovered in the boy's vocabulary. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Language Patterns, Language Usage
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Kantor, Rebecca – Sign Language Studies, 1982
Discusses the modifications in the direction of simplified and more linear language (American Sign Language) used by deaf mothers with their deaf children. (EKN)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Veinberg, Silvana C.; Wilbur, Ronnie B. – Sign Language Studies, 1990
Examination of two native American Sign Language signers' use of negative headshakes found that negative headshakes (1) were used syntactically to indicate negation; (2) could be accompanied by other nonmanual behaviors; (3) could accompany a negative lexical item; and (4) were synchronized generally with syntactic constituents. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Language Patterns, Language Usage
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Kantor, Rebecca – Sign Language Studies, 1980
Studies the developmental stages deaf children pass through in acquiring the adult forms of pronominal classifiers in American Sign Language. Data were obtained on production, comprehension, and imitation from nine children aged 3 to 11. Complexities of classifier usage influence the learning strategies used. (PJM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Children, Cognitive Style, Deafness
Stokoe, William C., Jr. – 1969
Charles A. Ferguson's concept of "diglossia" (1959, 1964) is used in analyzing sign language. As in Haitian Creole or Swiss German, "two or more varieties" of sign language are "used by the same speakers under different conditions"--these are here called "High" (H) sign language and "Low" (L) sign language. H sign language is formally taught…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Deafness, Diglossia, English
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Rudser, Steven Fritsch – Sign Language Studies, 1986
The performance of two sign language interpreters in interpreting and transliterating two English texts in 1973 and again in 1985 was analyzed. Both interpreters significantly increased their use of four linguistic features of American Sign Language: classifiers; rhetorical questions; noun-adjective word order; and nonmanual negation. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Classification, Deaf Interpreting
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Holmes, Janet – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Evaluates methods used by New Zealand researchers on language maintenance and shift among ethnic minorities to collect data on community languages. Points out that there are many communities in that country whose patterns of language use are mostly unknown. Makes a case for the social, cultural, and educational benefits of research on community…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Chinese, Data Collection, Ethnic Groups