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Orfanidou, Eleni; Adam, Robert; Morgan, Gary; McQueen, James M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Signed languages are articulated through simultaneous upper-body movements and are seen; spoken languages are articulated through sequential vocal-tract movements and are heard. But word recognition in both language modalities entails segmentation of a continuous input into discrete lexical units. According to the Possible Word Constraint (PWC),…
Descriptors: Speech, Sign Language, Oral Language, Deafness