Series | Lingue dei segni e sordità
Edited book | Valutazione linguistica in italiano e nella LIS e strategie di intervento
Chapter | Le abilità linguistiche degli adulti sordi segnanti: uno studio sulla comprensione e produzione elicitata di frasi interrogative in italiano

Le abilità linguistiche degli adulti sordi segnanti: uno studio sulla comprensione e produzione elicitata di frasi interrogative in italiano

Abstract

This study analyses the linguistic skills of a group of adult deaf signers in the production and comprehension of Italian wh-questions. Their performance was compared with that of a control group of hearing adults, matched on comparable chronological age. The asymmetries found in past studies are confirmed: subject questions are easier to produce and comprehend than object questions and who-questions are easier than which-questions. Deaf participants performed lower than the control group. This reveals that linguistic development in deaf people does not reach its final stages even in adulthood.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: July 19, 2022 | Accepted: June 23, 2023 | Published Dec. 13, 2023 | Language: it

Keywords Comprehension testWh-questionsElicited productionInterrogative sentenceDeaf people


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