The authors examine the effects of American Sign Language (ASL) on English reading
achievement and English reading comprehension. A systematic review of relevant primary …

Iconicity has traditionally been considered an objective, fixed, unidimensional property of
language forms, often operationalized as transparency for experimental purposes. Within a …

Reaction times for a translation recognition study are reported where novice to expert
English–ASL bilinguals rejected English translation distractors for ASL signs that were …

This study examined whether L1-Mandarin learners of L2-English use verb bias and
complementizer cues to process temporarily ambiguous English sentences the same way …

Syntactic parsing plays a central role in the interpretation of sentences, but it is unclear to
what extent non-native speakers can deploy native-like grammatical knowledge during …

Deaf readers may have larger perceptual spans than ability-matched hearing native English
readers, allowing them to read more efficiently (Belanger & Rayner, 2015). To further test the …

Eye fixation measures were used to examine English relative clause processing by adult
ASL–English bilingual deaf readers. Participants processed subject relative clauses faster …

The language-based analogical reasoning abilities of Deaf children are a controversial
topic. Researchers lack agreement about whether Deaf children possess the ability to …

Statistical regularities are an important part of linguistic knowledge. This chapter examines
this issue in-depth by reviewing the literature surrounding verb biases, or cases where a …

During language production, speakers acquire statistical information about linguistic units.
One example of this occurs in verb bias learning, in which speakers update statistics about …