Elena Tomasuolo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elena Tomasuolo is involved.
Articles
2025 Action depiction in gestures and signs: A comparative semiotic approach Sign Language & Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The relation between gestures and signs is highly debated both in gestures and sign language studies. Addressing the common symbolic ground from which both gestures and signs arise could improve our general knowledge about the body’s role in meaning construction and in shaping communication. To… read more
2010 Assessing lexical production in deaf signing children with the Boston Naming Test Acquiring Sign Language as a First Language / Acquisition d’une langue des signes comme langue première, Sallandre, Marie-Anne and Marion Blondel (eds.), pp. 110–128 | Article
A picture naming task, the Boston Naming Test, originally developed for spoken language, has been adapted to Italian Sign Language in order to assess the vocabulary of Italian deaf signing children. Thirty deaf and thirty hearing children and adolescents (aged 6–14 years) participated in the study.… read more