Discriminating signs: Perceptual precursors to acquiring a visual-gestural language
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Discriminating signs: perceptual precursors to acquiring a visual-gestural language.
We tested hearing 6- and 10-month-olds' ability to discriminate among three American Sign Language (ASL) parameters (location, handshape, and movement) as well as a grammatical marker (facial expression). ASL-naïve infants were habituated to a signer articulating a two-handed symmetrical sign in neutral space. During test, infants viewed novel two-handed signs that varied in only one parameter ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infant Behavior and Development
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0163-6383
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.08.006