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Emmorey, Karen; Li, Chuchu; Petrich, Jennifer; Gollan, Tamar H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
When spoken language (unimodal) bilinguals switch between languages, they must simultaneously inhibit 1 language and activate the other language. Because American Sign Language (ASL)-English (bimodal) bilinguals can switch into and out of code-blends (simultaneous production of a sign and a word), we can tease apart the cost of inhibition (turning…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Task Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Emmorey, Karen; Gertsberg, Nelly; Korpics, Franco; Wright, Charles E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
Speakers monitor their speech output by listening to their own voice. However, signers do not look directly at their hands and cannot see their own face. We investigated the importance of a visual perceptual loop for sign language monitoring by examining whether changes in visual input alter sign production. Deaf signers produced American Sign…
Descriptors: Deafness, Vision, American Sign Language, Feedback (Response)
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Emmorey, Karen; Falgier, Brenda – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2004
We report the results of an experiment investigating the ramifications of using space to express coreference in American Sign Language (ASL). Nominals in ASL can be associated with locations in signing space, and pronouns are directed toward those locations to convey coreference. A probe recognition technique was used to investigate the case of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Deafness, American Sign Language