ArticleBrain and language2021
The organization of the American Sign Language lexicon: Comparing one- and two-parameter ERP phonological priming effects across tasks.
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- Tracking effects of age of sign language acquisition and phonology in American Sign Language sentence processing.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Production of real signs but not pseudosigns affected by age of acquisition in American Sign Language.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations.Linguistics vanguard : multimodal online journal · 2024Article
- Are form priming effects phonological or perceptual? Electrophysiological evidence from American Sign Language.Cognition · 2022Article
- Sign and Spoken Language Processing Differences in the Brain: A Brief Review of Recent Research.Annals of neurosciences · 2022Review
- New Perspectives on the Neurobiology of Sign Languages.Frontiers in communication · 2021Article
- Lexical selection in bimodal bilinguals: ERP evidence from picture-word interference.Language, cognition and neuroscience · 2021Article
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We used phonological priming and ERPs to investigate the organization of the lexicon in American Sign Language. Across go/no-go repetition detection and semantic categorization tasks, targets in related pairs that shared handshape and location elicited smaller N400s than targets in unrelated pairs, indicative of facilitated processing. Handshape-related targets also elicited smaller N400s than unrelated targets, but only in the repetition task. The location priming effect reversed direction across tasks, with slightlylargeramplitude N400s for targets in related versus unrelated pairs in the semantic task, indicative of interference. These patterns imply that handshape and location play different roles during sign recognition and that there is a hierarchical organization for the sign lexicon. Similar to interactive-activation models of word recognition, we argue for differentiation between sublexical facilitation and lexical competition. Lexical competition is primarily driven by the location parameter and is more engaged when identification of single lexico-semantic entries is required.
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