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Peer reviewedKegl, Judy; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1996
Replies to issues raised by Bouchard and Dubuisson (B&D) (1995) about American Sign Language (ASL), refuting B&D's assertion that visual-gestural languages are not bound by any universal constraints on word order and reaffirming that ASL is a highly configurational language with a basic underlying syntactic structure as well as an…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Direct linkCorrea, Leticia M. Sicuro; de A. Almeida, Diogo A.; Porto, Renata Sobrino – Brain and Language, 2004
This study aims at verifying whether Portuguese gender-inflected nouns and adjectives are represented as full forms as suggested by Spanish data (Dominguez, Cuetos, & Segui, 1999). A series of lexical decision experiments is reported. Grammatical gender, frequency dominance, and grammatical category are manipulated and cumulative frequency is…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Portuguese
