International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2015
By providing evidence that sign language is an autonomous language, research has contributed to v... more By providing evidence that sign language is an autonomous language, research has contributed to various changes both within and beyond the signing communities. The aim of this article is to show an example of how sign language change is driven not only by language internal factors but also by changes in language perception, as well as in the changing groups of users and the contexts of use. Drawing from data collected at a sign language research centre in Italy on Italian Sign Language during a time span of over thirty years, the present study will show how language research was a major impetus for a new linguistic awareness and changes in language attitude has influenced new linguistic practices and has forced Italian signers to think about rules governing the use of their language.
Interactive Learning Technology for the Deaf, 1993
... Informatica, Didattica e Disabilitd. IROE - eNR, Firenze, 42-50. Taeschner, T., Devescovi, A.... more ... Informatica, Didattica e Disabilitd. IROE - eNR, Firenze, 42-50. Taeschner, T., Devescovi, A. & Volterra, V. (1988). Affixes and function words in the written language of deaf children. Applied Psycho linguistics, 9,385-401. Volterra, V. (Ed.) (1987). La lingua italiana dei segni. ...
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '93, 1993
... University of Bristol, 22 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 lHP, England +44 272257875 (fax) Sherm... more ... University of Bristol, 22 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 lHP, England +44 272257875 (fax) ShermanWilcox, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, ... Sherman Wilcox is on the faculty of the Linguistics Department at the University of New Mexico. ...
... featureswhich appear to be constrained by purely linguistic organizational principles, and a... more ... featureswhich appear to be constrained by purely linguistic organizational principles, and are specific to each sign language (eg Boyes-Braem, 1981, 1984; Boyes Braern, Fournier, Rickly, Corazza, Franchi & ... In C. Craig (ed.). Noun Classes and Categorization, 181-214. ...
Interactive Learning Technology for the Deaf, 1993
... Informatica, Didattica e Disabilitd. IROE - eNR, Firenze, 42-50. Taeschner, T., Devescovi, A.... more ... Informatica, Didattica e Disabilitd. IROE - eNR, Firenze, 42-50. Taeschner, T., Devescovi, A. & Volterra, V. (1988). Affixes and function words in the written language of deaf children. Applied Psycho linguistics, 9,385-401. Volterra, V. (Ed.) (1987). La lingua italiana dei segni. ...
It has been reported that in at least some sign languages such as ASL, nominal signs possess litt... more It has been reported that in at least some sign languages such as ASL, nominal signs possess little, or no inflectional morphology. Previous analyses of Italian Sign Language (LIS), have shown that LIS nouns exhibit some inflectional properties, and these influence the behavior of verbs. Most of these data, however, were limited to one variety of LIS used in Palermo, Sicily.
Most studies on sign lateralization provide inconclusive results about the role of the two hemisp... more Most studies on sign lateralization provide inconclusive results about the role of the two hemispheres in sign language processing, whereas the cases reported in the clinical literature show sign language impairment only following left hemisphere damage, suggesting a similar neural organization to spoken languages. By discriminating different levels of processing, a tachistoscopic study found that in deaf subjects matches of sign language handshapes based on equivalence of meaning are processed faster in the right visual field, thus demonstrating a left hemisphere superiority.
... 1995 Dec;140(5):402-9. Advanced learning technology for a bilingual education of deaf childre... more ... 1995 Dec;140(5):402-9. Advanced learning technology for a bilingual education of deaf children. ... Findings are discussed in terms of bilingual methods of education for deaf children and their implications for increasing deaf children's competence in written language. ...
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2015
By providing evidence that sign language is an autonomous language, research has contributed to v... more By providing evidence that sign language is an autonomous language, research has contributed to various changes both within and beyond the signing communities. The aim of this article is to show an example of how sign language change is driven not only by language internal factors but also by changes in language perception, as well as in the changing groups of users and the contexts of use. Drawing from data collected at a sign language research centre in Italy on Italian Sign Language during a time span of over thirty years, the present study will show how language research was a major impetus for a new linguistic awareness and changes in language attitude has influenced new linguistic practices and has forced Italian signers to think about rules governing the use of their language.
Interactive Learning Technology for the Deaf, 1993
... Informatica, Didattica e Disabilitd. IROE - eNR, Firenze, 42-50. Taeschner, T., Devescovi, A.... more ... Informatica, Didattica e Disabilitd. IROE - eNR, Firenze, 42-50. Taeschner, T., Devescovi, A. & Volterra, V. (1988). Affixes and function words in the written language of deaf children. Applied Psycho linguistics, 9,385-401. Volterra, V. (Ed.) (1987). La lingua italiana dei segni. ...
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '93, 1993
... University of Bristol, 22 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 lHP, England +44 272257875 (fax) Sherm... more ... University of Bristol, 22 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 lHP, England +44 272257875 (fax) ShermanWilcox, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, ... Sherman Wilcox is on the faculty of the Linguistics Department at the University of New Mexico. ...
... featureswhich appear to be constrained by purely linguistic organizational principles, and a... more ... featureswhich appear to be constrained by purely linguistic organizational principles, and are specific to each sign language (eg Boyes-Braem, 1981, 1984; Boyes Braern, Fournier, Rickly, Corazza, Franchi & ... In C. Craig (ed.). Noun Classes and Categorization, 181-214. ...
Interactive Learning Technology for the Deaf, 1993
... Informatica, Didattica e Disabilitd. IROE - eNR, Firenze, 42-50. Taeschner, T., Devescovi, A.... more ... Informatica, Didattica e Disabilitd. IROE - eNR, Firenze, 42-50. Taeschner, T., Devescovi, A. & Volterra, V. (1988). Affixes and function words in the written language of deaf children. Applied Psycho linguistics, 9,385-401. Volterra, V. (Ed.) (1987). La lingua italiana dei segni. ...
It has been reported that in at least some sign languages such as ASL, nominal signs possess litt... more It has been reported that in at least some sign languages such as ASL, nominal signs possess little, or no inflectional morphology. Previous analyses of Italian Sign Language (LIS), have shown that LIS nouns exhibit some inflectional properties, and these influence the behavior of verbs. Most of these data, however, were limited to one variety of LIS used in Palermo, Sicily.
Most studies on sign lateralization provide inconclusive results about the role of the two hemisp... more Most studies on sign lateralization provide inconclusive results about the role of the two hemispheres in sign language processing, whereas the cases reported in the clinical literature show sign language impairment only following left hemisphere damage, suggesting a similar neural organization to spoken languages. By discriminating different levels of processing, a tachistoscopic study found that in deaf subjects matches of sign language handshapes based on equivalence of meaning are processed faster in the right visual field, thus demonstrating a left hemisphere superiority.
... 1995 Dec;140(5):402-9. Advanced learning technology for a bilingual education of deaf childre... more ... 1995 Dec;140(5):402-9. Advanced learning technology for a bilingual education of deaf children. ... Findings are discussed in terms of bilingual methods of education for deaf children and their implications for increasing deaf children's competence in written language. ...
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