Perception study -- ASL vs. Gestures

[Adam Schembri]

Don,
What do you mean by 'gestures'? Co-speech gesture? Emblems? Mime?
Cheers,
Adam Schembri




On 21/04/12 1:48 , "Grushkin, Donald A" <grushkind at CSUS.EDU> wrote:

>Has there ever been a study investigating whether nonsigners with no
>exposure to ASL or other signed languages can detect the difference
>between gestures and natural signed languages such as ASL?  I seem to
>think I did come across something like that once, but cannot rememmber
>where or who, if it's not a figment of my imagination.
>
>--Don Grushkin
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