Deaf Signers Who Know Japanese Remember Words and Numbers More Effectively than Deaf Signers Who Know English

American Annals of the Deaf

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-45

  Flaherty, Mary ^a   Moran, Aidan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; READING; SIGN LANGUAGE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 2542516100     PISSN: 0002726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aad.2004.0010     Document Type: Article

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