Research project From speech to sign – learning Swedish Sign Language as a second language
What happens when adults learn sign language as a second language? This project examined second language learning of languages expressed in a different modality than the speaker's first language.

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Usually when people learn a new language, it is a language that is expressed in the same modality as their mother tongue. A person with Spanish as their first language can, for example, learn Swedish. But what happens when a person learns a language that operates in a different modality? A language that is not spoken, but is expressed gestually-visually, as sign language? In this project, we investigated how adults learn sign language as a second language.
Project members
Project managers
Krister Schönström
Docent
Department of Linguistics
