scholarly journals Real-time lexical comprehension in young children learning American Sign Language

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. e12672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle MacDonald ◽  
Todd LaMarr ◽  
David Corina ◽  
Virginia A. Marchman ◽  
Anne Fernald
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
American Sign

Young children's acquisition of the handshape aspect of American Sign Language signs: Parental report findings

1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Siedlecki ◽  
John D. Bonvillian
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Home Visit ◽  
Ordinal Position ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Parental Report ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Deaf Parents ◽  
Parental Reports

ABSTRACTThe acquisition of the handshape aspect of American Sign Language signs was examined longitudinally in nine young children of deaf parents. In monthly home visit sessions, the parents demonstrated on videotape how their children formed the different signs in their lexicons. According to these parental reports, handshapes were produced accurately in 49.8% of the children's different signs. Accuracy of handshape production typically improved with the children's increasing age and vocabulary size. Four basic handshapes (/5, G, B, A/) predominated in the children's early sign productions. Measures of the children's handshape production accuracy, ordinal position of initial production, and frequency of production were used to describe the order in which handshapes were most often acquired. It was also observed that the part of the hand involved in contacting a sign's location often affected the accuracy of the handshapes being produced.

Young Children's Acquisition of the Movement Aspect in American Sign Language

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 588-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Bonvillian ◽  
Theodore Siedlecki
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Home Visits ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Downward Movement ◽  
Motor Behaviors ◽  
Deaf Parents ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Production Accuracy

The acquisition of the movement aspect of American Sign Language signs was examined longitudinally in 9 young children of deaf parents. During monthly home visits, the parents demonstrated on videotape how their children formed the different signs in their lexicons. The parents also demonstrated how they formed or modeled these same signs. Overall, the children correctly produced 61.4% of the movements that were present in the adult sign models. Although the production accuracy of the movement aspect of signs did not improve over the course of the study, the number and complexity of movements produced by the children did increase as they got older and their vocabularies grew in size. Of the different sign movements, contacting action was by far the most frequently produced. The children were also relatively successful in their production of closing action and downward movement. The order of acquisition for the remaining ASL movements, however, was quite variable, with the exception that bidirectional movements tended to be produced more accurately than unidirectional movements. The relationship between children's early rhythmical motor behaviors and the development of sign movements is discussed.

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