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Giezen, Marcel R.; Emmorey, Karen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2016
Semantic and lexical decision tasks were used to investigate the mechanisms underlying code-blend facilitation: the finding that hearing bimodal bilinguals comprehend signs in American Sign Language (ASL) and spoken English words more quickly when they are presented together simultaneously than when each is presented alone. More robust…
Descriptors: Semantics, American Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Lexicology
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Emmorey, Karen; Petrich, Jennifer A. F. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2012
Two lexical decision experiments are reported that investigate whether the same segmentation strategies are used for reading printed English words and fingerspelled words (in American Sign Language). Experiment 1 revealed that both deaf and hearing readers performed better when written words were segmented with respect to an orthographically…
Descriptors: Deafness, Adults, Language Processing, Written Language