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View article: Navigating sign language learning: insights from hearing parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children
Navigating sign language learning: insights from hearing parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children Open
The importance of hearing parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children learning sign language is well documented. However, parents face many challenges in this learning process. This study investigates the experiences of Dutch hearin…
View article: Action bias in describing object locations by signing children
Action bias in describing object locations by signing children Open
This study investigates the role of action bias in the acquisition of classifier constructions by deaf children acquiring Turkish Sign Language (TİD). While classifier handshapes are morphologically complex and iconic, deaf children (aged …
View article: Gesture Reduces Mapping Difficulties in the Development of Spatial Language Depending on the Complexity of Spatial Relations
Gesture Reduces Mapping Difficulties in the Development of Spatial Language Depending on the Complexity of Spatial Relations Open
In spoken languages, children acquire locative terms in a cross‐linguistically stable order. Terms similar in meaning to in and on emerge earlier than those similar to front and behind , followed by left and right . This order has been att…
View article: First-language acquisition in a multimodal language framework: Insights from speech, gesture, and sign
First-language acquisition in a multimodal language framework: Insights from speech, gesture, and sign Open
Children across the world acquire their first language(s) naturally, regardless of typology or modality (e.g. sign or spoken). Various attempts have been made to explain the puzzle of language acquisition using several approaches, trying t…
View article: Sign advantage: Both children and adults’ spatial expressions in sign are more informative than those in speech and gestures combined
Sign advantage: Both children and adults’ spatial expressions in sign are more informative than those in speech and gestures combined Open
Expressing Left-Right relations is challenging for speaking-children. Yet, this challenge was absent for signing-children, possibly due to iconicity in the visual-spatial modality of expression. We investigate whether there is also a modal…
View article: Cross-modal investigation of event component omissions in language development: a comparison of signing and speaking children
Cross-modal investigation of event component omissions in language development: a comparison of signing and speaking children Open
Language development research suggests a universal tendency for children to be under- informative in narrating motion events by omitting components such as Path, Manner or Ground. However, this assumption has not been tested for children a…
View article: Language Use in Deaf Children With Early-Signing Versus Late-Signing Deaf Parents
Language Use in Deaf Children With Early-Signing Versus Late-Signing Deaf Parents Open
Previous research has shown that spatial language is sensitive to the effects of delayed language exposure. Locative encodings of late-signing deaf adults varied from those of early-signing deaf adults in the preferred types of linguistic …
View article: Spatial language use predicts spatial memory of children: Evidence from sign, speech, and speech-plus-gesture
Spatial language use predicts spatial memory of children: Evidence from sign, speech, and speech-plus-gesture Open
There is a strong relation between children’s exposure to spatial terms and their later memory accuracy. In the current study, we tested whether the production of spatial terms by children themselves predicts memory accuracy and whether an…
View article: Effects and Non-Effects of Late Language Exposure on Spatial Language Development: Evidence from Deaf Adults and Children
Effects and Non-Effects of Late Language Exposure on Spatial Language Development: Evidence from Deaf Adults and Children Open
Late exposure to the first language, as in the case of deaf children with hearing parents, hinders the production of linguistic expressions, even in adulthood. Less is known about the development of language soon after language exposure an…
View article: No effects of modality in development of locative expressions of space in signing and speaking children
No effects of modality in development of locative expressions of space in signing and speaking children Open
Linguistic expressions of locative spatial relations in sign languages are mostly visually motivated representations of space involving mapping of entities and spatial relations between them onto the hands and the signing space. These are …
View article: A first study on the development of spatial viewpoint in sign language acquisition
A first study on the development of spatial viewpoint in sign language acquisition Open
The current study examines, for the first time, the viewpoint preferences of signing children in expressing spatial relations that require imposing a viewpoint (left-right, front-behind). We elicited spatial descriptions from deaf children…
View article: Effects of Delayed Language Exposure on Spatial Language Acquisition by Signing Children and Adults
Effects of Delayed Language Exposure on Spatial Language Acquisition by Signing Children and Adults Open
Deaf children born to hearing parents are exposed to language input quite late, which has long-lasting effects on language production. Previous studies with deaf individuals mostly focused on linguistic expressions of motion events, which …
View article: Early produced signs are iconic. Evidence from Turkish Sign Language
Early produced signs are iconic. Evidence from Turkish Sign Language Open
Motivated form-meaning mappings are pervasive in signlanguages, and iconicity has recently been shown to facilitatesign learning from early on. This study investigated the role oficonicity for language acquisition in Turkish Sign Language(…
View article: Type of iconicity matters in the vocabulary development of signing children.
Type of iconicity matters in the vocabulary development of signing children. Open
Recent research on signed as well as spoken language shows that the iconic features of the target language might play a role in language development. Here, we ask further whether different types of iconic depictions modulate children's pre…
View article: Viewpoint preferences in signing children's spatial descriptions
Viewpoint preferences in signing children's spatial descriptions Open
The 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 40), 13 november 2015
View article: Scene-setting and referent introduction in sign and spoken languages
Scene-setting and referent introduction in sign and spoken languages Open
Previous studies show that children do not become adult-like in learning to set the scene and introduce referents in their narrations until 9 years of age and even beyond. However, they investigated spoken languages, thus we do not know mu…