Prelinguistic Gesture Predicts Mastery and Error in the Production of Early Signs

Cheek, Adrianne; Cormier, K; Repp, Ann; Meier, Richard P.

doi:10.1353/lan.2001.0072

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“…Location represents by far the simplest part of the sign for Deaf children to acquire and several studies report early mastery of this component with very few errors after 3 years of age (Cheek, Cormier, Repp, & Meier, 2001;Meier, 2005;Morgan, 2006). For this reason we do not focus on the location component in the present study.…”

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The Acquisition of Sign Language: The Impact of Phonetic Complexity on Phonology

Mann

Marshall

Mason

et al. 2010

Language Learning and Development

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This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractResearch into the effect of phonetic complexity on phonological acquisition has a long history in spoken languages. This paper considers the effect of phonetics on phonological development in a signed language. We report on an experiment in which non-word-repetition methodology was adapted so as to examine in a systematic way how phonetic complexity in two phonological parameters of signed languages -handshape and movement -affects the perception and articulation of signs. 91 Deaf children aged 3-11 years acquiring British Sign Language (BSL), and 46 hearing non-signers aged 6-11, were tested. For Deaf children, repetition accuracy improved with age, correlated with wider BSL abilities, and was lowest for signs that were phonetically complex. Repetition accuracy was correlated with fine motor skills for the youngest children. Despite their lower repetition accuracy, the hearing group were similarly affected by phonetic complexity, suggesting that common visual and motoric factors are at play when processing linguistic information in the visuo-gestural modality.Nonsense sign repetition 3

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Section: Acquisition Of Sign Language Phonologymentioning

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The Acquisition of Sign Language: The Impact of Phonetic Complexity on Phonology

Mann

Marshall

Mason

et al. 2010

Language Learning and Development

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“…Despite Jakobson's well-known view (1941/68) to the effect that the babbling sounds produced in the prelinguistic period are wholly unrelated to the speech sounds found in early word forms, continuity between babbling and speech has been firmly established for many years now. Studies bringing clear empirical evidence to bear on the question have involved both the general patterning of babble in relation to early word production (Oller et al, 1976) and the particular babbling of individual children in relation to their own first word forms (Vihman et al, 1985); more recently, first signed words have also been found to be rooted in prelinguistic gesture (Cheek et al, 2001). …”

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The sources of phonological knowledge: a cross-linguistic perspective

Vihman¹,

Kunnari²

2006

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“…The most complex category is handshape (Sandler & Lillo-Martin 2006). Various acquisition studies on several sign languages, namely Spanish Sign Language (LSE; Juncos et al 1997), Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS;Karnopp 1994Karnopp , 2002, American Sign Language (ASL; Marentette & Mayberry 2000;Cheek, Cormier, Repp & Meier 2001), and British Sign Language (BSL; Morgan, BarrettJones & Stoneham 2006), have shown that most errors in sign language acquisition are due to the handshape parameter.…”

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Handshape is the hardest path in Portuguese Sign Language acquisition

Carmo

Mineiro²,

Branco

et al. 2013

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Sign languages have only been acknowledged as true languages in the second half of the 20th century. Studies on their ontogenesis are recent and include mostly comparative approaches to spoken language and sign language acquisition. Studies on sign language acquisition show that of the manual phonological parameters, handshape is the one which is acquired last. This study reports the findings of a first pilot study on Portuguese Sign Language (Língua Gestual Portuguesa -LGP) acquisition, focusing on a Deaf child from 10 months until 24 months of age, and it confirms the pattern previously described for other sign languages. We discuss possible reasons why handshape is harder to acquire, which relate to neuromotor development and perceptual issues, and we suggest that auditory deprivation might delay the acquisition of fine motor skills.

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Prelinguistic Gesture Predicts Mastery and Error in the Production of Early Signs

Cited by 77 publications

References 47 publications

The Acquisition of Sign Language: The Impact of Phonetic Complexity on Phonology

The Acquisition of Sign Language: The Impact of Phonetic Complexity on Phonology

The sources of phonological knowledge: a cross-linguistic perspective

Handshape is the hardest path in Portuguese Sign Language acquisition

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