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Direct linkSiyavoshi, Sara – Sign Language Studies, 2017
Because sign languages have two main articulators, signers simultaneously experience both possibilities and constraints in the articulation and perception of linguistic messages. Sign languages commonly convey different linguistic units with each hand, and additional information is conveyed in nonmanual signals. Meaningful perseverations (or sign…
Descriptors: Role, Handedness, Sign Language, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedPetronio, Karen; Lillo-Martin, Diane – Language, 1997
Argues that WH-Movement in American Sign Language (ASL) is a leftward specifier of CP. Also argues that the occurrence of rightward WH-elements derives from independently motivated syntactic and discourse factors leading to the appearance of WH-elements in a sentence- or discourse-final positions--not by rightward WH-movement. This analysis…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Context Clues, Deafness, Discourse Analysis
Maguire, Frank – 1993
Research into the sign languages of the deaf is reviewed, particularly as it relates to the study and use of sign language in the Irish context. The first section offers an overview of deafness, the deaf experience, acquisition of linguistic and social identity, the sociology of the deaf community, and the role of sign language. Subsequent…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedEmmorey, Karen; Lillo-Martin, Diane – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Presents two probe recognition experiments investigating whether overt and null pronouns in American Sign Language (ASL) similarly reactivate their referents during online sentence comprehension. Both experiments indicated that an important link exists between spatial verb agreement and the ASL pronomial system and that nonreferent inhibition does…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Analysis of Variance, College Students, Deafness
Peer reviewedShaw, Risa – Sign Language Studies, 1987
Identifies indicators of register or style in selected portions of two lectures presented in American Sign Language, and in the interpretations of each made by two interpreters. The indicators used are speaking rate, pausing, syntax, intonation, and lexical choice. Transcripts of data are included in Appendix. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deaf Interpreting, Discourse Analysis
Meier, Richard – 1981
Two possible iconic models of the acquisition of verb agreement in American Sign Language (ASL) are developed and contrasted with a third, morphological account of the acquisition of this aspect of ASL. Additionally, data from spontaneous conversation of deaf children who have deaf parents are considered to test these three models. An iconic model…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Deafness, Discourse Analysis
