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Sign Language and Psycholinguistic Process: Fact, Hypotheses, and Implications for Interpretation

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It is true, as some of the papers in this conference have recognized, that laboratory studies of language cannot directly be carried over and used as models of naturally occurring language processes. Yet, even if laboratory experiments do represent artificial situations, the people in those experiments are very real. Thus, we cannot uncritically reject laboratory results any more than we can uncritically accept them. Instead, we should ask empirically just how relevant lab results are, and carry out the studies needed to find out. My work is based on long-standing psychological laboratory paradigms, but I hope that you will agree that it has much broader implications. Each of its implications will, of course, require separate test.

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    Ryan D. Tweney

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    David Gerver

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    H. Wallace Sinaiko

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Tweney, R.D. (1978). Sign Language and Psycholinguistic Process: Fact, Hypotheses, and Implications for Interpretation. In: Gerver, D., Sinaiko, H.W. (eds) Language Interpretation and Communication. NATO Conference Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9077-4_10

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