Some Psycholinguistic Aspects of Sign Language

Publisher Summary This chapter explores a few perceptual and cognitive features of language with special emphasis on sign language. It discusses the perceptual and cognitive determinants in language production and a few related empirical issues. It also presents considerable material on early work done by psycholinguistics, notably by W. Wundt. W. Wundt was the first psycholinguist. Apart from his monumental work on spoken language, he had a profound interest in sign languages and he offered the first essay on the psycholinguistics of Sign. The chapter discusses language comprehension and presents a few theoretical and empirical accounts of the processes involved in language comprehension. It highlights a few relationships between input and output, knowledge of language, and language behavior. The chapter also explains the siftings of a large body of literature on the psychology of language and a small but growing body of literature on psycholinguistic aspects of sign language.

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