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Peer reviewedGoldin-Meadow, Susan; And Others – Psychological Review, 1996
A model is proposed to explain when communication in the manual modality will assume grammatical properties and when it will not. An experiment with 16 hearing adults suggests the necessity of segmentation and combination in all communication. Manual communication need not be characterized by grammatical properties only when it accompanies speech.…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Skills, Deafness, Grammar
Direct linkSo, Wing Chee; Coppola, Marie; Licciardello, Vincent; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Cognitive Science, 2005
Sign languages modulate the production of signs in space and use this spatial modulation to refer back to entities--to maintain coreference. We ask here whether spatial modulation is so fundamental to language in the manual modality that it will be invented by individuals asked to create gestures on the spot. English speakers were asked to…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Grammar, Manual Communication, Sign Language
