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Peer reviewedTweney, Ryan D.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1983
Examines whether specific characteristics of American Sign Language (ASL) syntax affect perceptual processing of the language. Findings support the psychological reality of sentence embedding processes in ASL, further supporting the claim that visually based languages achieve the same functional goals as speech, although with different means. (FL)
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Grammar, Language Processing
Peer reviewedPerfetti, Charles A. – Discourse Processes, 1998
Comments on several quantitative approaches to semantic knowledge representations (the focus of this special issue). Points out some of the ways in which Latent Semantic Analysis and Hyperspace Analog to Language fall short of being plausible theories about psychological reality. Examines in-principle failures and wrong-kind failures that arise in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Psycholinguistics, Research Methodology
