Naming in Two Modalities: Manual and Mouth Gestures in Hearing and Deaf Children

Studies on various sign languages have pointed out that some kind of mouth action co-occur in language utterances together with other body components. Although the consistency such phenomenon has been studied adult signing, no research conducted so far actions occurring signing school-aged children. In this paper, will be described a developmental perspective and paralleled co-speech gestures hearing particular, manual investigated two groups 10 bilingual Italian/Italian Sign Language (LIS) deaf children (from 6 to 14 yrs old) by using naming task. The aim is parallel quantitatively qualitatively co-verbal order understand their role respect vocal naming. Furthermore, three signers were considered as models for understanding typology occurrence compare it signing.