Otro
Recognition of altered segments in Brazilian Sign Language
Registro en:
Psychology & Neuroscience. Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade de Brasília (UnB)Universidade de São Paulo, v. 5, n. 2, p. 239-245, 2012.
1983-3288
10.3922/j.psns.2012.2.15
S1983-32882012000200015
S1983-32882012000200015.pdf
Autor
Verdu, Ana Claudia Moreira Almeida
Caneguim, Janaína de Fátima Castro
Rose, Júlio César Coelho de
Bandini, Heloisa Helena Motta
Resumen
The purpose of this study was to verify discriminative control by segments of signs in adolescents with deafness who use Brazilian Sign Language (BSL). Four adolescent with bilateral deafness, with 3 years of BSL teaching, saw a video presenting a children's tale in BSL. After showing accurate understanding of the story, participants saw another video of the same story with 12 signs altered in one of their segments (hand configuration, place of articulation, or movement). They apparently did not detect the alterations. However, when the signs were presented in isolation in a matching-to-sample test, they virtually always selected the picture corresponding to the unaltered signs. Three participants selected an unfamiliar picture in 50% or more trials with an altered sign as a sample, showing that they could detect the majority of the altered signs.