Psycholinguistic Mechanisms of Classifier Processing in Sign Language

• Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 998 - 1011
• Main Authors: Krebs, Julia, Malaia, Evie, Wilbur, Ronnie B, Roehm, Dietmar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Psychological Association 01.06.2021
• Subjects: Deafness; Difficulty Level; Foreign Countries; Hearing Impairments; Language Processing; Morphology (Languages); Motion; Nonverbal Communication; Psycholinguistics; Sentences; Sign Language; Stimuli; Verbs; Word Order; Austria

Nonsigners viewing sign language are sometimes able to guess the meaning of signs by relying on the overt connection between form and meaning, or iconicity (cf. Ortega, Özyürek, & Peeters, 2020; Strickland et al., 2015). One word class in sign languages that appears to be highly iconic is classi...