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Comprehension and production of BSL classifier constructions by hearing adult learners and deaf signing children| old_uid | 8708 |
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| title | Comprehension and production of BSL classifier constructions by hearing adult learners and deaf signing children |
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| start_date | 2010/05/17 |
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| schedule | 13h-14h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle 12 |
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| summary | Entity classifiers are highly productive morphological forms that are an integral part of signed languages, and that stand at the intersection of gesture and language. I will present a study that focuses on the comprehension and production of locative and distributive entity classifiers in British Sign Language (BSL). Hearing adult learners of BSL have little difficulty understanding entity classifiers, and even adults with no experience of BSL are able to understand classifiers. Adult learners' production of classifiers is considerably more effortful and less accurate, but even when they don't use classifiers, they find other ways of encoding the required locative and distributive information. Both tasks show that adult learners bring their visuo-spatial and gestural skills to the task of encoding locative and distributive information in BSL. I will also present preliminary results from the same tasks for deaf children who use BSL. |
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| responsibles | <not specified> |
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