Entries from Group 4 Language Blog tagged with 'Psych 440-Amy Graham-from class entry'
Hearers misinterpret and so do signers
Chapter 14 of Talking Hands talks about how signers make errors when signing due to single formational parameters. This is the same way that people who use verbal language can mistake one word for another because of simple sound based...
What are the effects of learning to sign late?
Chapter 4 (page 67) states that some deaf children born to hearing families may be exposed to no signing at all until they reach school age. Therefore they are unable to learn language in a natural way through absorbing it...
Where did they come from?
The article spoke of â??standardâ?? language, or the way youâ??re supposed to talk, and â??nonstandardâ?? language, which doesnâ??t follow the same rules as standard. The article continues to say that when one uses nonstandard language it leads to the speaker...
To be or not to be equal
My question was similar to that of Kate's and pertains to the language differences in the classroom. I was also quite upset to read that teachers treated children differently based on things such as their language. One of my roommates...
Future generations will think this is obvious
From chapter 11 in Erard he quotes Jean Fox Tree on page 251 in saying "in our lifetime we will accept that these (pause fillers) are meaningful. Forty or fifty years from now, if not sooner, you can talk about...
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