Gary Morgan

List of John Benjamins publications for which Gary Morgan plays a role.

Journals

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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics

Directions in Sign Language Acquisition

Edited by Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll

Subjects Language acquisition | Signed languages | Theoretical literature & literary studies
This opening chapter sets the scene for the volume by describing in the first section what researchers mean by a native user of a signed language, and what differences exist between the deaf child who has deaf parents and those in the vast majority of cases from hearing families. This experience of… read more
This chapter weaves together work on early interaction between parents and children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) with research on social-emotional development (Theory of Mind) and wider cognitive abilities (Executive Functions). We describe in detail why language input in sign or spoken… read more
Sidera, Francesc, Elisabet Serrat, Anna Amadó and Gary Morgan 2019 Emotion recognition skills in children with hearing loss: What is the role of language?Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages, Aguilar-Mediavilla, Eva, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Raúl López-Penadés, Victor A. Sanchez-Azanza and Daniel Adrover-Roig (eds.), pp. 169–184 | Chapter
Previous studies have found a deficit in emotion recognition skills in children with hearing loss linked to their linguistic development. Our aim is to explore how different linguistic-communicative skills influence the capacity to recognise emotions from faces, at different developmental points,… read more
Thompson, Robin L., Rachel England, Bencie Woll, Jenny Lu, Katherine Mumford and Gary Morgan 2017 Deaf and hearing children’s picture naming: Impact of age of acquisition and language modality on representational gestureThe gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage, Morgenstern, Aliyah and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Article
Stefanini, Bello, Caselli, Iverson, & Volterra (2009) reported that Italian 24–36 month old children use a high proportion of representational gestures to accompany their spoken responses when labelling pictures. The two studies reported here used the same naming task with (1) typically… read more
Cocks, Naomi, Gary Morgan and Sotaro Kita 2011 Iconic gesture and speech integration in younger and older adultsGesture 11:1, pp. 24–39 | Article
This study investigated the impact of age on iconic gesture and speech integration. The performance of a group of older adults (60–76 years) and a group of younger adults (22–30 years) were compared on a task which required the comprehension of information presented in 3 different conditions:… read more
Cross-linguistic evidence suggests that language typology influences how people gesture when using ‘manner-of-motion’ verbs (Kita 2000; Kita & Özyürek 2003) and that this is due to ‘online’ lexical and syntactic choices made at the time of speaking (Kita, Özyürek, Allen, Brown, Furman & Ishizuka,… read more
Ortega, Gerardo and Gary Morgan 2010 Comparing child and adult development of a visual phonological systemAcquiring Sign Language as a First Language / Acquisition d’une langue des signes comme langue première, Sallandre, Marie-Anne and Marion Blondel (eds.), pp. 67–81 | Article
Research has documented systematic articulation differences in young children’s first signs compared with the adult input. Explanations range from the implementation of phonological processes, cognitive limitations and motor immaturity. One way of disentangling these possible explanations is to… read more
Morgan, Gary 2008 Transcription of child sign language: A focus on narrativeSign Language Acquisition, Baker, Anne E. and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 107–118 | Article

This paper describes some general difficulties in analysing child sign language data with an emphasis on the process of transcription. The particular issue of capturing how signers encode simultaneity in narrative is discussed.

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Morgan, Gary 2005 Transcription of child sign language: A focus on narrativeLanguage Acquisition, Baker, Anne E. and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 119–130 | Article

This paper describes some general difficulties in analysing child sign language data with an emphasis on the process of transcription. The particular issue of capturing how signers encode simultaneity in narrative is discussed.

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Narrative discourse in BSL is first analyzed in an adult signer by describing how fixed and shifted sign space is used for reference and the encoding of simultaneity. Although children as young as 4 years old use parts of these sign spaces in isolation their combined use in encoding simultaneity in… read more
Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll 2002 The development of complex sentences in British Sign LanguageDirections in Sign Language Acquisition, Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 255–275 | Article
Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll 2002 IntroductionDirections in Sign Language Acquisition, Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. xi–xx | Miscellaneous
Woll, Bencie and Gary Morgan 2002 Conclusions and directions for future researchDirections in Sign Language Acquisition, Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 291–299 | Article