Psychology 2134A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Unimodality, Peripheral Vision, Manually Coded English

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

Home sign: a kind of pidgin sign language that hearing families develop to communicate with a deaf family member. Each family will develop their own home sign and then deaf people from other families won"t be able to understand them. Leaves the child with an incomplete first language acquisition. Village sign: arises in a community with a high incidence of deafness, and they are learned and used by both deaf and hearing members of the community. Passed on through generations and can develop a more complex grammar and vocabulary. A sign language: a linguistic system that is perceived visually and produced through hand movements and facial expressions. A signed language: the expression of language in the manual-visual transmission mode. Deaf community sign language: a sign language that naturally emerges whenever a group of unrelated deaf individuals are brought together to form a community. American sign language (asl): the sign language used by many deaf communities in the usa and.