TY - JOUR
T1 - The British Sign Language (BSL) norms for age of acquisition, familiarity, and iconicity
AU - Vinson, D.P.
AU - Cormier, K.
AU - Denmark, T.
AU - Schembri, A.
AU - Vigliocco, G.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Research on signed languages offers the opportunity to address many important questions about language that it may not be possible to address via studies of spoken languages alone. Many such studies, however, are inherently limited, because there exist hardly any norms for lexical variables that have appeared to play important roles in spoken language processing. Here, we present a set of norms for age of acquisition, familiarity, and iconicity for 300 British Sign Language (BSL) signs, as rated by deaf signers, in the hope that they may prove useful to other researchers studying BSL and other signed languages.
AB - Research on signed languages offers the opportunity to address many important questions about language that it may not be possible to address via studies of spoken languages alone. Many such studies, however, are inherently limited, because there exist hardly any norms for lexical variables that have appeared to play important roles in spoken language processing. Here, we present a set of norms for age of acquisition, familiarity, and iconicity for 300 British Sign Language (BSL) signs, as rated by deaf signers, in the hope that they may prove useful to other researchers studying BSL and other signed languages.
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U2 - 10.3758/BRM.40.4.1079
DO - 10.3758/BRM.40.4.1079
M3 - Article
SN - 1554-3528
VL - 40
SP - 1079
EP - 1087
JO - Behaviour Research Methods
JF - Behaviour Research Methods
ER -