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Title: Recognition of Signed and Spoken Language: Different Sensory Inputs, the Same Segmentation Procedure
Language: English
Authors: Orfanidou, Eleni, Adam, Robert, Morgan, Gary
Source: Journal of Memory and Language. Apr 2010 62(3):272-283.
Availability: Elsevier. 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800. Tel: 877-839-7126; Tel: 407-345-4020; Fax: 407-363-1354; e-mail: usjcs@elsevier.com; Web site: http://www.elsevier.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Physical Description: PDF
Page Count: 12
Publication Date: 2010
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Speech, Sign Language, Oral Language, Deafness, Word Recognition, Indo European Languages, Articulation (Speech), Experiments, Control Groups, Recognition (Psychology)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.12.001
ISSN: 0749-596X
Abstract: Signed languages are articulated through simultaneous upper-body movements and are seen; spoken languages are articulated through sequential vocal-tract movements and are heard. But word recognition in both language modalities entails segmentation of a continuous input into discrete lexical units. According to the Possible Word Constraint (PWC), listeners segment speech so as to avoid impossible words in the input. We argue here that the PWC is a modality-general principle. Deaf signers of British Sign Language (BSL) spotted real BSL signs embedded in nonsense-sign contexts more easily when the nonsense signs were possible BSL signs than when they were not. A control experiment showed that there were no articulatory differences between the different contexts. A second control experiment on segmentation in spoken Dutch strengthened the claim that the main BSL result likely reflects the operation of a lexical-viability constraint. It appears that signed and spoken languages, in spite of radical input differences, are segmented so as to leave no residues of the input that cannot be words. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
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