Imitation, Sign Language Skill and the Developmental Ease of Language Understanding (D-ELU) Model

Frontiers in Psychology
Emil HolmerMary Rudner

Abstract

Imitation and language processing are closely connected. According to the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model (Rönnberg et al., 2013) pre-existing mental representation of lexical items facilitates language understanding. Thus, imitation of manual gestures is likely to be enhanced by experience of sign language. We tested this by eliciting imitation of manual gestures from deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) signing and hearing non-signing children at a similar level of language and cognitive development. We predicted that the DHH signing children would be better at imitating gestures lexicalized in their own sign language (Swedish Sign Language, SSL) than unfamiliar British Sign Language (BSL) signs, and that both groups would be better at imitating lexical signs (SSL and BSL) than non-signs. We also predicted that the hearing non-signing children would perform worse than DHH signing children with all types of gestures the first time (T1) we elicited imitation, but that the performance gap between groups would be reduced when imitation was elicited a second time (T2). Finally, we predicted that imitation performance on both occasions would be associated with linguistic skills, especially in the manual modality. A split-plot ...Continue Reading

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Jul 5, 2016·Frontiers in Psychology·Emil HolmerMary Rudner
Jul 12, 2016·Behavioral Sciences·Francys Subiaul
Sep 30, 2017·Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education·Emil HolmerMary Rudner
Feb 5, 2019·International Journal of Audiology·Jerker RönnbergMary Rudner
Jul 25, 2019·Frontiers in Psychology·Rina BlombergJerker Rönnberg
Jul 28, 2018·Frontiers in Psychology·Mary RudnerBirgitta Sahlén
Jan 14, 2021·Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR·Jerker RönnbergMary Rudner

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