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American Sign Language Syntactic and Narrative Comprehension in Skilled and Less Skilled Readers: Bilingual and Bimodal Evidence for the Linguistic Basis of Reading
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Chamberlain, Charlene; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
We tested the hypothesis that syntactic and narrative comprehension of a natural sign language can serve as the linguistic basis for skilled reading. Thirty-one adults who were deaf from birth and used American Sign Language (ASL) were classified as skilled or less skilled readers using an eighth-grade criterion. Proficiency with ASL syntax, and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Oral Language, Deafness, Intelligence Quotient
Lending a Helping Hand: Linguistic Input and Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children.
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Prinz, Philip M.; Masin, Louise – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Examines the effect of adult recasting in sign language on the acquisition of specific syntactic-semantic structures by deaf children aged 9 to 76 months. Results indicated that recasting triggered the acquisition of new syntactic-semantic structures in American Sign Language and English, evident in the spontaneous production of previously…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Deafness