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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen Emmorey |
| ISBN: | 0805833986 9780805833980 0805833994 9780805833997 |
| OCLC Number: | 46777544 |
| Description: | xvii, 383 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Documenting the birth of a language: the nicaraguan sign language project -- The American deaf community and sociolinguistic context -- The structure of American sign language: linguistic universals and modality effects -- The structure of signs: morphology and the lexicon -- The phonology of a soundless language -- Syntax: the structure of sentences -- Disourse and language use -- The confluence of language and space -- Classifier constructions -- Talking about space with space -- Nonlocative functions of signing space -- Psycholinguistic studies of sign perception, online processing, and production -- Sign perception and visual processing -- Lexical access and sign recognition -- Lexical representations and organization -- Online comprehension of signed utterances: psycholinguistic studies of coreference -- Some issues in sign language production -- Sign language acquisition -- Early development What does that "mistake" mean? acquisition of syntax and morphology -- Later development -- The critical period hypothsis and the effects of late language acquisition -- When language input is absent or inconsistent: the contribution of the child -- The effects of age of acquisition on grammatical knowledge and language processing -- Delayed first language acquisition differs from second language acquisition -- The cognitive effects of delayed first language acquisition -- The effects of late acquisition on the neural organization of language -- Memory for sign language: implications for the structure of working memory -- Early evidence for sign-based working memory -- Evidence for a visuospatial phonological loop -- Working memory capacity: effects on memory span for sign and speech -- Effects of visuospatial modality on sign-based working memory -- A modality effect for sign language? implications for models of working memory The architecture of working memory for sign language: summary and conclusions -- The impact of sign language use on visuospatial cognition -- Motion processing -- Face processing -- Mental imagery -- Domains unaffected by sign language use -- Implications: does languageaffect cognition? -- Sign language and the brain -- What determines the left-hemispheric specialization for language? -- Within hemisphere organization of sign language -- The role of the right hemisphere in langugae processes -- The role of subortical structures in sign language -- Appendix A: Handshapes in American sign language -- Appendix B: Linguistic distinctions among communication forms in Nicaragua |
| Responsibility: | Karen Emmorey. |
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