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Nivedita Mani

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Signs activate their written word translation in deaf adults: An ERP study on cross-modal co-activation in German Sign Language

2020

Since signs and words are perceived and produced in distinct sensory-motor systems, they do not share a phonological basis. Nevertheless, many deaf bilinguals master a spoken language with input merely based on visual cues like mouth representations of spoken words and orthographic representations of written words. Recent findings further suggest that processing of words involves cross-language cross-modal co-activation of signs in deaf and hearing bilinguals. Extending these findings in the present ERP-study, we recorded the electroencephalogram (EEG) of fifteen congenitally deaf bilinguals of German Sign Language (DGS) (native L1) and German (early L2) as they saw videos of semantically a…

050101 languages & linguisticsLinguistics and LanguageGerman Sign LanguageSign languagesign language; phonology; priming; EEG; bimodal bilingualismLanguage and LinguisticsSentence processingGerman030507 speech-language pathology & audiology03 medical and health sciencessign languagesign language linguistics psycholinguistics0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesprimingLanguage. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammarP101-41005 social sciencesBimodal bilingualismPhonologylanguage.human_languageLinguisticsphonologybimodal bilingualismlanguageeeg0305 other medical sciencePsychologyPriming (psychology)Spoken languageGlossa: a journal of general linguistics
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Early ERP Evidence for Children’s and Adult’s Sensitivity to Scalar Implicatures Triggered by Existential Quantifiers (Some)

2021

How quickly do children and adults interpret scalar lexical items in speech processing? The current study examined interpretation of the scalar terms some vs. all in contexts where either the stronger (some = not all) or the weaker interpretation was permissible (some allows all). Children and adults showed increased negative deflections in brain activity following the word some in some-infelicitous versus some-felicitous contexts. This effect was found as early as 100 ms across central electrode sites (in children), and 300–500 ms across left frontal, fronto-central, and centro-parietal electrode sites (in children and adults). These results strongly suggest that young children (aged betwe…

Correctionpragmatic inferencingbehavioral disciplines and activitiesimplicatures in language acquisitionBF1-990implicaturePsychologyN400developmental pragmaticspragmaticsGeneral Psychologyscalar implicatureOriginal Researchspeech processingFrontiers in Psychology
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