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| Title: | Lexical organization in deaf children who use British Sign Language: Evidence from a semantic fluency task |
| Author: | Chloe R. Marshall |
| Institution: | Institute of Education, University of London |
| Author: | Katherine Rowley |
| Institution: | University College London |
| Author: | Kathryn Mason |
| Institution: | University College London |
| Author: | Rosalind Herman |
| Institution: | City University London |
| Author: | Gary Morgan |
| Institution: | City University London |
| Linguistic Field: | Language Acquisition |
| Abstract: | We adapted the semantic fluency task into British Sign Language (BSL). In Study 1, we present data from twenty-two deaf signers aged four to fifteen. We show that the same ‘cognitive signatures’ that characterize this task in spoken languages are also present in deaf children, for example, the semantic clustering of responses. In Study 2, we present data from thirteen deaf children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in BSL, in comparison to a subset of children from Study 1 matched for age and BSL exposure. The two groups' results were comparable in most respects. However, the group with SLI made occasional word-finding errors and gave fewer responses in the first 15 seconds. We conclude that deaf children with SLI do not differ from their controls in terms of the semantic organization of the BSL lexicon, but that they access signs less efficiently. |
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This article appears in Journal of Child Language Vol. 40, Issue 1, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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