ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
On the Reliability of the Notion of Native Signer and Its Risks.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Reading ability in both deaf and hearing adults is linked to neural representations of abstract phonology derived from visual speech.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- How to crip your sign language linguistic theory.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2025Article
- Assessing Lexical and Syntactic Comprehension in Deaf Signing Adults.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2023Article
- FluentSigners-50: A signer independent benchmark dataset for sign language processing.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Who is a native signer? Since around 95% of deaf infants are born into a hearing family, deaf signers are exposed to a sign language at various moments of their life, and not only from birth. Moreover, the linguistic input they are exposed to is not always a fully fledged natural sign language. In this situation, is the notion of native signer as someone exposed to language from birth of any use? We review the results of the first large-scale cross-linguistic investigation on the effects of age of exposure to sign language. This research involved about 45 Deaf adult signers in each of three sign languages (Catalan Sign Language, French Sign Language, and Italian Sign Language). Across the three languages, participants were divided into three groups - those exposed from birth, those between 1 and 5 years of age, and those exposed between 6 and 15 years of age - and received a battery of tests designed for each language targeting various aspects of morphosyntactic competence. In particular, the tests focused on both those morphosyntactic phenomena that are known from the spoken language literature to be good detectors of language impairment or delay (i.e.,
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