Eye Gaze during Comprehension of American Sign Language by Native and Beginning Signers

Autor/inn/en	Emmorey, Karen; Thompson, Robin; Colvin, Rachael
Titel	Eye Gaze during Comprehension of American Sign Language by Native and Beginning Signers
Quelle	In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 14 (2009) 2, S.237-243 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1081-4159
DOI	10.1093/deafed/enn037
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; American Sign Language; Native Speakers; Comprehension; Deafness; Attention + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; Muttersprachler; Verstehen; Verständnis; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Aufmerksamkeit
Abstract	An eye-tracking experiment investigated where deaf native signers (N = 9) and hearing beginning signers (N = 10) look while comprehending a short narrative and a spatial description in American Sign Language produced live by a fluent signer. Both groups fixated primarily on the signer's face (more than 80% of the time) but differed with respect to fixation location. Beginning signers fixated on or near the signer's mouth, perhaps to better perceive English mouthing, whereas native signers tended to fixate on or near the eyes. Beginning signers shifted gaze away from the signer's face more frequently than native signers, but the pattern of gaze shifts was similar for both groups. When a shift in gaze occurred, the sign narrator was almost always looking at his or her hands and was most often producing a classifier construction. We conclude that joint visual attention and attention to mouthing (for beginning signers), rather than linguistic complexity or processing load, affect gaze fixation patterns during sign language comprehension. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10