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6 - Sign Language Phonological Processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2019

Diane Brentari
Diane Brentari
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University of Chicago
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Summary

Is phonological form perceived, understood, stored, and accessed in the same way and with the same neural mapping in signed and spoken languages? This is the complex and multifaceted question that the work on sign language processing has addressed since the beginning. The methodologies and technologies used to address this question have become more sophisticated over the last sixty years. Since the beginning, a psycholinguistic tradition was at the center of the work on sign languages, and we trace the trajectory of this work in this chapter.

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slips of the tonguetip of the finger phenomenacategorical perceptionneighborhood densityneural mappingauditory cortexpriminggatinglexical decisiongoodness of fit
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Sign Language Phonology , pp. 166 - 199
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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6.6 Further Reading

Emmorey, K., McCullough, S., & Brentari, D. (2003). Categorical perception in American sign language. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 21–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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MacSweeney, M., Waters, D., Brammer, M.J., Woll, B., & Goswami, U. (2008). Phonological processing in deaf signers and the impact of age of first language acquisition. Neuroimage, 40, 1369–79.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
McCullough, S., & Emmorey, K. (2009). Categorical perception of affective and linguistic facial expressions. Cognition, 110, 208–21.Google Scholar
Petitto, L. A., Zatorre, R.J., Gauna, K., Nikelski, E.J., Dostie, D., & Evans, A. C. (2000). Speech-like cerebral activity in profoundly deaf people processing signed languages: Implications for the neural basis of human language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 13961–6.Google Scholar

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