Language specificity in lexical organization: Evidence from deaf signers' lexical organization of American Sign Language and English.
| Number | 671 |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Drawer | 12 |
| Entry Date | 11/15/1999 |
| Authors | Hanson, V.L. & Feldman, L.B. |
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| Publication | Memory & Cognition, 17(3), 292-301. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0671.pdf |
| Abstract | In 2 experiments, a sign decision task, in which 38 deaf signers (college students) made a decision about the number of hands required to form a particular sign of American Sign Language (ASL), revealed significant facilitation by repetition among signs that share a base morpheme. A lexical decision task on English words revealed facilitation by repetition among words that share a base morpheme in both English and ASL, but not among those that share a base morpheme in ASL only. This outcome occurred for both deaf and 20 additional hearing Ss. Results are evidence that the morphological principles of lexical organization observed in ASL do not extend to the organization of English for skilled deaf readers. |
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