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Lexical access in Catalan Signed Language (LSC) production.

Cristina Baus1, Eva Gutiérrez-Sigut, Josep Quer

  • 1Departamento de Psicología Cognitiva, Universidad de La Laguna,38205 Tenerife, Spain. cbausma@ull.es

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This study on Catalan Signed Language (LSC) reveals that semantic and phonological processing in language production are universal across modalities. However, the specific mechanisms of phonological encoding differ between signed and spoken languages.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Sign Language Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Theories of language production often focus on spoken languages, raising questions about the universality of cognitive processes across different modalities.
  • Understanding how semantic and phonological information is accessed and manipulated in sign languages is crucial for a comprehensive model of human language.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether the semantic and phonological levels of language production are universal or modality-specific.
  • To examine semantic and phonological effects in Catalan Signed Language (LSC) production.

Main Methods:

  • An adapted picture-word interference task was used with native and non-native LSC signers.
  • Participants signed picture names while ignoring background signs, with distractors varying in semantic and phonological relatedness.

Main Results:

  • Semantic interference effects were observed for semantically related distractors.
  • Phonological facilitation occurred when target and distractor signs shared Handshape or Movement.
  • Phonological interference emerged when target and distractor signs shared Location.

Conclusions:

  • The distinction between semantic and phonological levels appears to hold across spoken and signed modalities.
  • Mechanisms of phonological encoding show modality-specific differences, particularly in the role of Location, Handshape, and Movement in LSC production.