The mental lexicon is defined as a container of all the information about the meaning of a lexical
piece and all its characteristics. Regarding the semantic dimension, this lexicon helps to describe the
relationships between individual concepts as members of conceptual domains. Studies on the
processing, functional, and social distribution of spoken languages and signed languages suggest
partial overlaps between them. However, factors such as ontogenetic development, language
acquisition conditions, the development of deaf culture, conceptual domains concreteness, and the
lexical repertoire available in each linguistic modality could suggest important differences. The
objective of this study is to explore the semantic networks of the conceptual domains of space and
time in the Uruguayan deaf signers population and Spanish hearers. 62 participants will be called for carrying out a word association task in their
respective languages and with semantically equivalent lexical items. Two kinds of analysis will be done: semantic network and categorical-semantic analysis for understanding (i) the structure of the mental lexicon and (ii) the concrete / abstract profile of the relation between clues and associate pieces.