American Sign Language morphology examines how signs are created and modified to convey meaning, much like word formation in spoken languages. Using free and bound morphemes along with processes such ...

Human languages are known to have grown and changed considerably over the course of history, often reflecting technological, ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area. This tends to occur because a lack of self-awareness prevents them ...

It is widely believed that language is structured around ‘constituents’, units that combine hierarchically. Using structural priming, we provide evidence of linguistic structures — non-constituents — ...

Juliana Frankenfield is an Instructor of American Sign Language (ASL) here at Rowan. She currently teaches ASL at both the secondary and collegiate levels. In addition to having state K-12 ...