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Publication details [#65569]

Darcy, Isabelle, Joshua T. Williams and Sharlene D. Newman. 2018. Neural substrates of sign language vocabulary processing in less-skilled hearing M2L2 signers: Evidence for difficult phonological movement perception. Bilingualism 21 (3) : 550–562.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L2-acquisition | perception1 | phonological change | sign language | vocabulary growth

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This inquiry explored whether poor lexis knowledge engaged like prefrontal lexico-semantic regions as seen in unimodal L2 sign learners. Poor lexis knowledge demands bigger engagement of modality-independent and modality-dependent spheres, which could explain behavioral proof of trouble in visual phonology processing.