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Ortega, Gerardo; Morgan, Gary – Second Language Research, 2015
There is growing interest in learners' cognitive capacities to process a second language (L2) at first exposure to the target language. Evidence suggests that L2 learners are capable of processing novel words by exploiting phonological information from their first language (L1). Hearing adult learners of a sign language, however, cannot fall back…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Input, Language Research, Native Language
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Woll, Bencie; Morgan, Gary – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Various theories of developmental language impairments have sought to explain these impairments in modality-specific ways--for example, that the language deficits in SLI or Down syndrome arise from impairments in auditory processing. Studies of signers with language impairments, especially those who are bilingual in a spoken language as well as a…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Language Impairments, Down Syndrome