Karen Emmorey

Language, Cognition, and the Brain (eBook, PDF)

Insights From Sign Language Research

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human language and language processing, the relation between cognition and language, and the neural organization of language. The value of sign languages lies in their modality. Specifically, for perception, signed languages depend upon high-level vision and motion processing systems, and for production, they require the integration of motor systems involving the hands and face. These facts raise many questions: What impact does this different biological base have for grammatical systems? For online language processing? For the acquisition of language? How does it affect nonlinguistic cognitive structures and processing? Are the same neural systems involved?

These are some of the questions that this book aims at addressing. The answers provide insight into what constrains grammatical form, language processing, linguistic working memory, and hemispheric specialization for language. The study of signed languages allows researchers to address questions about the nature of linguistic and cognitive systems that otherwise could not be easily addressed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135664817
• Artikelnr.: 42711797

Autorenporträt

Emmorey, Karen

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Introduction. The Structure of American Sign Language:
Linguistic Universals and Modality Effects. The Confluence of Language and
Space. Psycholinguistic Studies of Sign Perception, Online Processing, and
Production. Sign Language Acquisition. The Critical Period Hypothesis and
the Effects of Late Language Acquisition. Memory for Sign Language:
Implications for the Structure of Working Memory. The Impact of Sign
Language Use on Visuospatial Cognition. Sign Language and the Brain.
Appendices: Handshapes in American Sign Language. Linguistic Distinctions
Among Communication Forms in Nicaragua.