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Peer reviewedHoemann, Harry W.; Koenig, Teresa J. – Sign Language Studies, 1990
Analysis of the performance of beginning American Sign Language students, who had only recently learned the manual alphabet, on a task in which proactive interference would build up rapidly on successive trials, supported the view that different languages have separate memory stores. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Code Switching (Language), English, Interference (Language)
Download full textStokoe, William C. – 1975
Linguistics retains from its antecedents, philology and the study of sacred writings, some of their apologetic and theological bias. Thus it has not been able to face squarely the question how linguistic function may have evolved from animal communication. Chimpanzees' use of signs from American Sign Language forces re-examination of language…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Animal Behavior, Communication (Thought Transfer), Evolution
