Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?
IntroductionEarly linguistic background, and in particular, access to language, lays the foundation of future reading skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing signers. The current study aims to estimate the impact of two factors – early access to sign and/or spoken language – on reading fluency in deaf an...
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| description | IntroductionEarly linguistic background, and in particular, access to language, lays the foundation of future reading skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing signers. The current study aims to estimate the impact of two factors – early access to sign and/or spoken language – on reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult Russian Sign Language speakers.MethodsIn the eye-tracking experiment, 26 deaf and 14 hard-of-hearing native Russian Sign Language speakers read 144 sentences from the Russian Sentence Corpus. Analysis of global eye-movement trajectories (scanpaths) was used to identify clusters of typical reading trajectories. The role of early access to sign and spoken language as well as vocabulary size as predictors of the more fluent reading pattern was tested.ResultsHard-of-hearing signers with early access to sign language read more fluently than those who were exposed to sign language later in life or deaf signers without access to speech sounds. No association between early access to spoken language and reading fluency was found.DiscussionOur results suggest a unique advantage for the hard-of-hearing individuals from having early access to both sign and spoken language and support the existing claims that early exposure to sign language is beneficial not only for deaf but also for hard-of-hearing children. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0bc08a3e1ddb4936986e3105454e2fd62023-09-21T09:00:55ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-09-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11456381145638Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?Anastasia A. Ziubanova0Anna K. Laurinavichyute1Olga Parshina2Center for Language and Brain, HSE University, Moscow, RussiaDepartment of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, GermanyPsychology Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, United StatesIntroductionEarly linguistic background, and in particular, access to language, lays the foundation of future reading skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing signers. The current study aims to estimate the impact of two factors – early access to sign and/or spoken language – on reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult Russian Sign Language speakers.MethodsIn the eye-tracking experiment, 26 deaf and 14 hard-of-hearing native Russian Sign Language speakers read 144 sentences from the Russian Sentence Corpus. Analysis of global eye-movement trajectories (scanpaths) was used to identify clusters of typical reading trajectories. The role of early access to sign and spoken language as well as vocabulary size as predictors of the more fluent reading pattern was tested.ResultsHard-of-hearing signers with early access to sign language read more fluently than those who were exposed to sign language later in life or deaf signers without access to speech sounds. No association between early access to spoken language and reading fluency was found.DiscussionOur results suggest a unique advantage for the hard-of-hearing individuals from having early access to both sign and spoken language and support the existing claims that early exposure to sign language is beneficial not only for deaf but also for hard-of-hearing children.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145638/fullreading fluencydeafhard-of-hearingsign languagemultimodal bilingualismscanpaths |
| spellingShingle | Anastasia A. Ziubanova Anna K. Laurinavichyute Olga Parshina Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers? Frontiers in Psychology reading fluency deaf hard-of-hearing sign language multimodal bilingualism scanpaths |
| title | Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers? |
| title_full | Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers? |
| title_fullStr | Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers? |
| title_short | Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers? |
| title_sort | does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard of hearing adult signers |
| topic | reading fluency deaf hard-of-hearing sign language multimodal bilingualism scanpaths |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145638/full |
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