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Sehyr, Zed Sevcikova; Giezen, Marcel R.; Emmorey, Karen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2018
This study investigated the impact of language modality and age of acquisition on semantic fluency in American Sign Language (ASL) and English. Experiment 1 compared semantic fluency performance (e.g., name as many animals as possible in 1 min) for deaf native and early ASL signers and hearing monolingual English speakers. The results showed…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, English, Language Fluency, Semantics
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Emmorey, Karen; Petrich, Jennifer A. F. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2012
Two lexical decision experiments are reported that investigate whether the same segmentation strategies are used for reading printed English words and fingerspelled words (in American Sign Language). Experiment 1 revealed that both deaf and hearing readers performed better when written words were segmented with respect to an orthographically…
Descriptors: Deafness, Adults, Language Processing, Written Language