Can experience with co-speech gesture influence the prosody of a sign language?: Sign language prosodic cues in bimodal bilinguals

• DIANE BRENTARI ^[1] ; MARIE A. NADOLSKE ^[2] ; GEORGE WOLFORD ^[3]
  1. [1] University of Chicago

     University of Chicago

     City of Chicago, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] Montclair State University

     Montclair State University

     Township of Montclair, Estados Unidos

     
  3. [3] Purdue University

     Purdue University

     Township of Wabash, Estados Unidos

     

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• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 15, Nº 2, 2012, págs. 402-412
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this paper the prosodic structure of American Sign Language (ASL) narratives is analyzed in deaf native signers (L1-D), hearing native signers (L1-H), and highly proficient hearing second language signers (L2-H). The results of this study show that the prosodic patterns used by these groups are associated both with their ASL language experience (L1 or L2) and with their hearing status (deaf or hearing), suggesting that experience using co-speech gesture (i.e. gesturing while speaking) may have some effect on the prosodic cues used by hearing signers, similar to the effects of the prosodic structure of an L1 on an L2.