What is the Source of Bilingual Cross-Language Activation in Deaf Bilinguals?
| Autor: | Pilar Piñar, Megan Zirnstein, Erin Wilkinson, Corrine Occhino, Jill P. Morford, Judith F. Kroll |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Adolescent American Sign Language Initialization Multilingualism Deafness Sign language 050105 experimental psychology Education Sign Language Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing 0302 clinical medicine Semantic similarity Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Neuroscience of multilingualism Language Structure (mathematical logic) 05 social sciences Middle Aged Translating Linguistics language.human_language language Female Syllabic verse Psychology Direct representation 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 24:356-365 |
| ISSN: | 1465-7325 1081-4159 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/deafed/enz024 |
| Popis: | When deaf bilinguals are asked to make semantic similarity judgments of two written words, their responses are influenced by the sublexical relationship of the signed language translations of the target words. This study investigated whether the observed effects of American Sign Language (ASL) activation on English print depend on (a) an overlap in syllabic structure of the signed translations or (b) on initialization, an effect of contact between ASL and English that has resulted in a direct representation of English orthographic features in ASL sublexical form. Results demonstrate that neither of these conditions is required or enhances effects of cross-language activation. The experimental outcomes indicate that deaf bilinguals discover the optimal mapping between their two languages in a manner that is not constrained by privileged sublexical associations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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