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Casey, Shannon; Emmorey, Karen; Larrabee, Heather – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Given that the linguistic articulators for sign language are also used to produce co-speech gesture, we examined whether one year of academic instruction in American Sign Language (ASL) impacts the rate and nature of gestures produced when speaking English. A survey study revealed that 75% of ASL learners (N = 95), but only 14% of Romance language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, American Sign Language, Cartoons, Second Language Learning
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Capirci, Olga; Iverson, Jana M.; Montanari, Sandro; Volterra, Virginia – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2002
Examined potential effects of early exposure to sign language on the use of communicative gestures by a bilingual hearing child of deaf parents. Data were analyzed to identify types and tokens of communicative gestures, words, signs, and the ways in which they were combined. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition