Language Modality-Dependent Attention Behaviours in Bimodal Bilingual Children of Dutch and Sign Language of The Netherlands (NGT)
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2025-08-15
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This exploratory eye-tracking study investigates attention behaviours in two bimodal bilingual children over two sessions: one with their Dutch-speaking caregiver and one with their caregiver who uses NGT. A second set of sessions was conducted two months later. This thesis explores how attentional behaviours (e.g. pointing, tapping, waving) differ between bimodal bilinguals’ sessions with a Dutch-speaking caregiver and with an NGT-signing caregiver. We found that more attention behaviours were used in sign language sessions than in spoken Dutch sessions, and that more attention behaviours were used in the second sessions than in the first. Pointing was the most frequently used attention behaviour in both modalities. Other behaviours, such as waving and banging, were modality dependent: in this case, they occurred more often in the signed modality. Displacing signs did not occur, and acoustic behaviours were more common in Dutch sessions. The findings suggest the possibility of cross-modality language transfer.
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