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segrsyd

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Several researchers have examined how well deaf participants remember signs, just as listeners remember words they hear. In listening, words that sound alike are less likely to be remembered. What happens with American Sign Language?
 
  a) Signs that are close in meaning, regardless of motion involved in the sign, are less likely to be recalled.
   b) Signs whose words sound the same if said aloud are less likely to be recalled, regardless of motion involved
   in the sign.
   c) Signs that are made up of similar motions are less likely to be recalled.
   d) There is no sign length effectall signs were remembered equally well.

Question 2

Deaf individuals:
 
  a) show effects of similarity, but not word length.
   b) have no articulatory loop at all.
   c) show effects of word length, but not similarity.
   d) show effects of word length and similarity, just like hearing individuals.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: c

Answer to Question 2

Answer: d



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