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Publication details [#65517]

Emmorey, Karen, Zed Sevcikova Sehyr, Brenda Nicodemus and Jennifer Petrich. 2018. Referring strategies in American Sign Language and English (with co-speech gesture): The role of modality in referring to non-nameable objects. Applied Psycholinguistics 39 (5) : 961–987.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gesture | modality | object | reference | sign language

Language as a subject

English | Sign Language, American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study explored the impact of language modality on the production and mutual admission of reference to non-nameable figures in American Sign Language (ASL) and English. In all, distinct linguistic resources (classifier constructions vs. geometric vocabulary) layed divers claims on referring strategies in ASL and English.