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Marga Stander; Hazel Sivell – Sign Language Studies, 2025
This article aims to identify common errors made by hearing students learning South African Sign Language (SASL) and enhance the understanding of language acquisition in this context. The researchers formulated three hypotheses, attributing errors to vocabulary gaps, misunderstandings due to improper signing, and the dual impact of spoken and…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Hearing (Physiology)
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Bailes, Cynthia Neese; Erting, Lynne C.; Thumann-Prezioso, Carlene; Erting, Carol J. – Sign Language Studies, 2009
This longitudinal case study examined the language and literacy acquisition of a Deaf child as mediated by her signing Deaf parents during her first three years of life. Results indicate that the parents' interactions with their child were guided by linguistic and cultural knowledge that produced an intuitive use of child-directed signing (CDSi)…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Deafness, Cognitive Mapping, Human Body
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Hoemann, Harry W.; Kreske, Catherine M. – Sign Language Studies, 1995
Describes a study that found, contrary to previous reports, that a strong, symmetrical release from proactive interference (PI) is the normal outcome for switches between American Sign Language (ASL) signs and English words and with switches between Manual and English alphabet characters. Subjects were college students enrolled in their first ASL…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language), Comparative Analysis
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Jamieson, Janet R. – Sign Language Studies, 1995
Examines from a Vygotskian perspective deaf children's private speech, i.e., speech that is spoken aloud (or visibly performed) but that is addressed to no particular person. Findings are consistent with Vygotsky's notion of the robustness of the phenomenon and its ontogenesis in early social communication. (33 references) (LR)
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer)