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Initiatives & Projectsproject 13 -- Empirical tests of sentence interlanguage mappingsILM 4: Empirical tests of sentence interlanguage mappings (Morford, Dussias, Kroll, Pinar):
This study uses eye tracking technology to examine how deaf people who are proficient in both ASL and English resolve temporary grammatical ambiguities in English sentences. We hypothesize that ASL-English bilinguals will have distinctively different eye-movement patterns than hearing bilinguals. ASL and English have different syntactic structures, which may partly account for why. It is also possible that because deaf English readers have learned the language visually, they process it differently than hearing bilinguals would. Our population consists of deaf individuals who learned ASL as a native language and English as a second language. The results will have implications for literacy in the Deaf community and bilingual processing in general. Related Initiatives:
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