Dissertation abstracts
Comprehension and production of referential expressions in German Sign Language (DGS) and Turkish Sign Language (TİD)
An empirical approach
Article outline
- Overview of the dissertation
- Study I: A referent selection task
- Study II: A sentence continuation task
- Theoretical implications
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Pronoun production and comprehension in American Sign Language: the interaction of space, grammar, and semantics.
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 37:1
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