stuttering in signed languages, kinesthetic feedback?

[Miako Villanueva]

I'm wondering if there have been any hypotheses about kinesthetic  
feedback rather than visual feedback in signed languages.
While I understand that for spoken language, theories focus on  
auditory feedback rather than production, the kinesthetic aspects of  
signed language production are much more salient than in spoken  
language production.
For example, when native speakers are asked to make grammatical  
judgments for spoken language, they will speak the sentence to  
themselves, and then often answer, "nope, it doesn't sound right."  
Native signers making these judgments sign a sentence to themselves  
and respond with "it doesn't feel right," not that it doesn't look  
right, when judging their own signing.
Also, when interpreting and monitoring my work, I monitor my spoken  
language production auditorily, but I monitor my signed language work  
kinesthetically, not visually.

--Miako

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> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:06:01 -0700
> From: Karen Emmorey <kemmorey at mail.sdsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [SLLING-L] stuttering in signed languages
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> In some recent talks, I have hypothesized that stuttering might be
> rare in sign language because there is a weak link between visual
> feedback and sign production.  Some theories of stuttering
> hypothesize a disruption between auditory feedback and speech
> production.  Also, delayed auditory feedback can cause stuttering and
> can sometimes improve symptoms in stutterers.  So I've been following
> the anecdotes to see whether I could rule out sign stuttering due to
> late learning or as an effect that carries over from speech in
> hearing signers.  So I guess we have an interesting result either
> way.  If stuttering turns out to be as common in signers as in
> speakers, then this suggests that stuttering is indeed a language
> disorder.  On the other hand, if stuttering turns out to be rare in
> sign language, this supports my hypothesis that visual feedback is
> not strongly linked to language output, compared to spoken language.
>
> Karen Emmorey
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