Discourse Deficits Following Right Hemisphere Damage in Deaf Signers
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...More recently, neuropsychological, electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies in neurologically intact subjects, and more detailed clinical evaluation of aphasics, suggest that the right hemisphere plays a significant role in the processing of both signed and spoken language particularly in the more complex, pragmatic features of each (Frederiksen et al., 1990; Bloom et al., 1992; Neville et al., 1998; Hickok et al., 1999)....
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...…clinical evaluation of aphasics, suggest that the right hemisphere plays a significant role in the processing of both signed and spoken language particularly in the more complex, pragmatic features of each (Frederiksen et al., 1990; Bloom et al., 1992; Neville et al., 1998; Hickok et al., 1999)....
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...At the syntactic level, ASL specifies relations among signs using a variety of mechanisms, including sign order, spatial relations among signs, and grammaticized facial expressions (e.g., to mark conditionals) (Liddell, 1980; Lillo-Martin, 1991; Lillo-Martin & Klima, 1990)....
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...The first is an ability to maintain topical cohesion, and its disruption results in ‘‘tangential speech’’ similar to that observed in hearing RHD patients (Brownell et al., 1986)....
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...The present study addresses two further questions: first, do extra-grammatical discourse functions in deaf signers show the same right-hemisphere dominance observed for discourse functions in hearing subjects; and second, do discourse functions in ASL This research was supported in part by NIH…...
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