Burch Melissa, Jaafar Amina, Weigle West Tiffany, Bauer Patricia
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002, USA.
Memory. 2008;16(5):517-29. doi: 10.1080/09658210802007501.
To examine the impact of early linguistic experiences on later verbal report of autobiographical memory, 13 hearing adults and 13 deaf adults born to hearing parents described events that occurred before and after the age of 10 years. The contextual, temporal, and thematic coherence of the narratives was rated. The use of emotional, perceptual, mental, and physiological states was also recorded. There were differences in the coherence of the narratives and use of internal states according to the age at which the events occurred. There were no group differences in coherence, but hearing adults provided longer narratives than deaf adults. When narrative length was controlled, deaf adults included more emotional states than hearing adults. Results suggest that early unavailability of language does not impact the coherence of adults' narratives, although certain features of linguistic expression specific to ASL may result in greater saturation of emotional states references in autobiographical narratives of deaf adults.
为了研究早期语言经历对后期自传体记忆言语报告的影响，13名听力正常的成年人和13名父母听力正常的成年聋人描述了10岁之前和之后发生的事件。对这些叙述的背景、时间和主题连贯性进行了评分。还记录了情感、感知、心理和生理状态的使用情况。根据事件发生的年龄，叙述的连贯性和内部状态的使用存在差异。在连贯性方面没有群体差异，但听力正常的成年人提供的叙述比成年聋人更长。当控制叙述长度时，成年聋人比听力正常的成年人包含更多的情感状态。结果表明，早期无法接触语言并不会影响成年人叙述的连贯性，尽管美国手语特有的某些语言表达特征可能会导致成年聋人自传体叙述中情感状态参考的饱和度更高。
