Users of American Sign Language sometimes experience the phenomenon of not being able to retrieve a particular sign when they feel sure that they know the sign. This phenomenon is called:
A)source confusion.
B)retrograde amnesia.
C)the tip-of-the-fingers phenomenon.
D)the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

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The phenomenon where users of American Sign Language know a sign but can't retrieve it at the moment is analogous to the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon in spoken language, but for sign language, it's called the "tip-of-the-fingers" phenomenon.

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