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Grammatical Processing in American Sign Language: Age of First-Language Acquisition Effects in Relation to Syntactic Structure
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Boudreault, Patrick; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
Sentence processing in American Sign Language (ASL) was investigated as a function of age of first language acquisition with a timed grammatical judgement task. Participants were 30 adults who were born deaf and first exposed to a fully perceptible language between the ages of birth and 13 years. Stimuli were grammatical and ungrammatical examples…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Processing, Adults, Deafness
Hearing Impaired: Curriculum Guide.
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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1983
The curriculum guide is intended to assist families, school administrators, and teachers providing educational services to hearing impaired (HI) children in regular and special classes in Alberta, Canada. Explained in the introduction are such curriculum aspects as goals and purpose, population to be served, eligibility criteria, three…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Art, Auditory Training, Communication Skills
Language, Gesture, and Space.
Emmorey, Karen, Ed.; Reilly, Judy S., Ed. – 1995
A collection of papers addresses a variety of issues regarding the nature and structure of sign language, gesture, and gesture systems. Articles include: "Theoretical Issues Relating Language, Gesture, and Space: An Overview" (Karen Emmorey, Judy S. Reilly); "Real, Surrogate, and Token Space: Grammatical Consequences in ASL American…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Comparative Analysis