Abstract
Sentence processing in a visual—gestural language was investigated by testing signers recognition for American Sign Language (ASL) sentences. Using a continuous recognition paradigm, sign order and structural changes that altered the meaning of a sentence were noticed at both immediate and delayed (45 seconds) test intervals. Sign order and structural changes that resulted in a paraphrase of an earlier-occurring sentence were noticed only with immediate testing. These results indicate that signers decompose a complex sign into its lexical and inflectional components during sentence comprehension and remember the meaning expressed by these components rather than remembering the exact sign structure.
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