Phonological Awareness for American Sign Language
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Phonological awareness for american sign language.
This paper examines the concept of phonological awareness (PA) as it relates to the processing of American Sign Language (ASL). We present data from a recently developed test of PA for ASL and examine whether sign language experience impacts the use of metalinguistic routines necessary for completion of our task. Our data show that deaf signers exposed to ASL from infancy perform better than de...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1081-4159,1465-7325
DOI: 10.1093/deafed/enu023