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Jenny L. Singleton; Kristin Walker; Richard P. Meier; Aaron Shield – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
Research on the acquisition of American Sign Language (ASL) by deaf autistic children has documented similarities to the linguistic profile of hearing children on the autism spectrum and has identified sign-specific phenomena that could serve as clinical markers of autism in the deaf population. However, the acquisition of a signed language by…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Case Studies, Deafness, Native Language
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Frederiksen, Anne Therese; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Second Language Research, 2019
Previous research on reference tracking has revealed a tendency towards over-explicitness in second language (L2) learners. Only limited evidence exists that this trend extends to situations where the learner's first and second languages do not share a sensory-motor modality. Using a story-telling paradigm, this study examined how hearing novice…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, American Sign Language, Native Language, Psychomotor Skills
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Brentari, Diane; Nadolske, Marie A.; Wolford, George – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
In this paper the prosodic structure of American Sign Language (ASL) narratives is analyzed in deaf native signers (L1-D), hearing native signers (L1-H), and highly proficient hearing second language signers (L2-H). The results of this study show that the prosodic patterns used by these groups are associated both with their ASL language experience…
Descriptors: Cues, Deafness, American Sign Language, Suprasegmentals